Aamin Ojha
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Aamin Ojha
If your job is in the digital world, spend your off-time in the real world.
if anyone believes in your business more than you do, you’re in the wrong business
— a maxim of napolean, recontextualised by the dude behind the Founder’s podcast (forgot his name mb)
Steve Jobs, on Microsoft:
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their product.
Remember Goodhart's Law when setting targets and goals:
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Entrepreneurship and Laws
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Erin Glasstwitter.comGrand Theft Auto is a fun video game because it’s a fake world where you can do things with no fear. Drive 200mph on the highway. Break into a building. Run over a prostitute with your car. All good in GTA.
Unlike GTA, in real life, the law is a thing and jail is a thing. But that’s about where the differences end. If someone gave you a perfect
... See morea rule of thumb for learning in in the 2020s
only use AI to test you and teach you. never rely on it to reduce effort — as learning is proportional to effort spent
effort is not the same as efficiency