Aaron Marco Arias
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Aaron Marco Arias
Warren Buffett used a very apt metaphor once to describe how the second-order problem is best described by a crowd at a parade: Once a few people decide to stand on their tip-toes, everyone has to stand on their tip-toes. No one can see any better, but they’re all worse off.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Abstraction helps organizations move beyond overwhelming details to more actionable and trustworthy information. Fidelity is the degree to which a new version of an old version reflects reality. By finding a balance between telling the truth and omitting unnecessary noise, you empower your audience.
Boxes and Arrows • Book in brief - Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap - Boxes and Arrows
A powerful aspect of abstraction is that many different situations become the same when you forget some details.
Eugenia Cheng • The Art of Logic
My prediction may be too early, but I think it is directionally correct. The centrality of the internet in our lives will fade. Sure, we will still use it for banking, for sending off quick missives and for looking things up and so on. But the current culture of all day, every day screen time will fade. It will become passé, spurious, and something... See more
Thomas J Bevan • The End of the Extremely Online Era
My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work.
The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox
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