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

In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest. Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, and Reebok were all selling more shoes. So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest. The winner was a corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield. “Two days after the compe... See more

Learning about the lives of hunter-gatherers confirms a suspicion that our modern lives are fundamentally at odds with human nature, that we have lost some kind of primordial freedom. […]

‘A fair case can be made that hunters often work much less than we do, and rather than a grind the food quest is intermittent, leisure is abundant, and there is mo... See more

So much of the web now is sanitized, copy-cat, and a bit scared. I think we are nostalgic for the early internet in part because anyone could curate it, and it was full of wonderful human flaws as a result.

So much of the web now is sanitized, copy-cat, and a bit scared. I think we are nostalgic for the early internet in part because anyone could curate it, and it was full of wonderful human flaws as a result.

The definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become.” - Dan Sullivan

Jason Segel made his directorial debut with the show, “Dispatches from Elsewhere.” Leading up to the start of filming, he was overwhelmed with anxiety and a sense of imposter syndrome, or as he described it, “the feeling that you were invited by mistake.” To get rid of his anxiety about directing for the first time, he told everyone he was having a... See more

“It seems to me,” the puppeteer Jim Henson (The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, etc.) said, “that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” Don’t hide it. Embrace it. Express it. Manifest it through your discipline. Say it out loud

“Honestly, most of running something (team, business, etc). Is locking yourself in a room with a blank spreadsheet and making a simple matrix that simplifies your challenges and objectives, assigning someone as an owner, and setting a few metrics that define success.” - Private tweet from Davis Bell