Amie Pollack
@amiepollack
Amie Pollack
Some group of people must exist who are educated, aware, motivated, and at the bleeding edge of a field…who nonetheless have some spare hours in the workweek to spend innovating on something instead of slavishly executing a task.
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
and because the algorithm was constantly changing, I had to change with it. I was constantly adapting my visual and verbal style to keep up with trends
My Smartphone Was Ruining My Life. So I Quit.
Great prompt for code
Oral History of Shang-Yi Chiang
An oral history interview with Shang-Yi Chiang covers his early life in China, education in electrical engineering, career at Texas Instruments and Hewlett-Packard, and pivotal role at TSMC in semiconductor advancements.
archive.computerhistory.org
The most compelling publications or media brands are the ones that can throw the best parties, because it shows they can mobilize an IRL group of interesting people, who are then consumers and customers and clients. (See Feed Me, The Drift, Byline / The Drunken Canal cinematic universe.) Media brands increasingly work like fashion brands: Consumers... See more
One Thing • 🟧 the New Rules of Media
the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he'd come for us after we die, and not when we're still living.
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?