alex

@alexwastaken

curious librarian

All cardsCollections

If Darwin published his theory of natural selection today, the tweet announcing it would be deprioritized because it contained a link, and instead Twitter would show you wisecracks that fit in 280 characters.

Paul Graham twitter.com

what is Social Media doing to us?

"Natural taste is not a theoretical knowledge; it's a quick and exquisite application of rules which we do not even know."
— Montesquieu, 1759

I think “accomplishments” are traps. Accomplishments, by their very definition, exist only in the past or future—which are not even real things.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Growth Without Goals

growth without Goals

Thumbnail of www-x-com-forgebitz-status-1958973397553357110

yeah so this is why lovable is kinda garbage when you run vaporware ads like this you know it's just bs without any value "but most of our customers are enterprise".. sure https://t.co/mnDf6THOPC

Klaas

x.com

This is why the marketing environment is broken. The things that draw attention are fluff.

“Everyone driving slower than you is an idiot and everyone driving faster than you is a maniac.”

The classic “ideas are worthless, execution is everything” adage is flawed.

Six+ months into an intense software build, I can attest that the little execution details make all the difference. But the constraint on executing well is not operational. It’s more often about having good ideas about how to resolve challenges.

In other words, good execution... See more

sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About

ideas

Contextual, but not arbitrary Relative, but not subjective Objective, but not universal

Emmett Shear x.com