andrea
@andreas
dreaming about the future, romanticizing the past
andrea
Eventually we’ll have machines that can dream. But there’ll always still be the hard, dumb, bottleneck that is human effort. You shape what you make and it shapes you right back. When you get stuck nothing is going to help you get unstuck except sheer stubbornness and self-driven motion. That’s the most rewarding part though: if you expend enough e... See more
momentum
-from Nix
Sometimes getting the right positioning for your startup is more challenging than getting to the product itself.
“Often it’s not that you don’t know who the customer is, it’s that you’re not picking — you haven’t committed to one hypothesis over the other. That’s what creates the confusion about what the product is, what the feature set looks like,
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There’s an enormous ceiling on the potential for a news publication. Even a news aggregator.
At the end of the day, there are only so many published headlines that will be deeply relevant to my interests.
I’ve been using this app, Artifact, made by the creators of Instagram. Does a pretty good job guessing what’d be interesting to me (starting to sug
... See moreWhen Facebook introduced the news’ feed, it spurned feedback from ex-partners whose relationship-ending-statuses were now being blasted to all their friends. Facebook prioritized its engagement—and its revenue—over the impact on its users.
It’s hard to blame Facebook. It would have died out if it hadn’t introduced a newsfeed—the feed was the most en
... See morewhen bob dylan sings, it feels like he’s singing for no one but himself. at least not trying to mold around his feelings / sayings so they’re pretty to others. he’s singing the things that hit on truth for him.
his strange rap song and the music video that goes along with it… is raw and even not super pleasant. but it has swagger. he’s saying random
... See moreillusions of moving forward, when really we’re just creating a larger current that’s pulling us back.
People are happy when they can get a grip on and become grateful for what’s around them.
-Davey, on our relationship to fast tech