Amie Pollack
@amiepollack
Amie Pollack
1) It must be exhausting to read things in order to get mad at them. 2) The social-media internet was built around finding things to get mad at. 3) That motivation ultimately made everything bad. 4) I don’t want to do that; I want people to read newsletters (or articles) because they want to be surprised and delighted by them, because we’re on... See more
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 The internet’s distribution problem
Great prompt for code
I think there's a very deep point about the universe being interconnected there, but there's also a really interesting point for people who want to make stuff—write or make podcasts or whatever—because there's this deep fear that everyone has about being pigeonholed. And it's like, well, if I pick this really specific topic, I won't be able to... See more
Dan Shipper • Transcript: ‘Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything’
Anna Gát
@TheAnnaGat
“In The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron talked about how many people end up in fields adjacent to their real dreams just to feel close to what they truly want. Of course, we can’t always get what we want; the world does not exist to fulfill our desires. But carrying that truth—recognizing where our passions are—is really important.”
@TheAnnaGat
“In The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron talked about how many people end up in fields adjacent to their real dreams just to feel close to what they truly want. Of course, we can’t always get what we want; the world does not exist to fulfill our desires. But carrying that truth—recognizing where our passions are—is really important.”
Anna Gát • Tweet
But at a minimum, we shouldn’t find our ambitions by accident. If we imagine that we’re no longer in our current pond—that we got fired, or are 16 years old and dreaming about what we to do with our life, or 80 years old and reflecting on what we did—what would we care about then? Are the ladders we spent our time climbing the ladders that we really want to stand at the top of?
