Aishwarya Goel

Obstacles to fluent writing

• Any variation on: “I can't say that!”


• “What if people think I'm stupid?”


• “What if people think this is boring?”


• “What if people think I'm ignorant?”


• “What if people think I'm trying to be superior?”


• “What if this isn't good enough?”


• “What if sharing my ideas results in my being scooped?”


• “Is this part of my job?”


• The vague worri

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So what makes Teenage Engineering cool? Now that you have some context, you can answer that question for yourself.

To me it is the people, their friendship, the mutual passion for Stockholm, a love for music, games and art. And then actually building great products consistently, and not giving a damn about what I or you think of them.

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What and how do you write a personal site with the long-term in mind?... What sort of writing could you create if you worked on it (be it ever so rarely) for the next 60 years?

A few thoughts follow below. Let's begin with a few of the more important principles, plus a few miscellanea that don't really belong later in the essay. Some of this is repeated later in the essay.

• The purpose of the site is to help me think well1. This purpose is in opposition to many widely-used norms in online writing. I suspect that the possibl

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A strong social fabric and the right tech stack will unleash a new wave of bottom-up economic experiments: interest-free P2P borrowing, anonymous lending pools, collective insurance, socialized ETFs, DAO-based freelancer unions, rotating savings schemes, revshare guilds, meme venture syndicates, crypto ponzis, exit scams, in-browser miners, upstate... See more