Andrei Stoica

PM writes: Love me some vertical integration... and synchronicities. The day Anton sent me a draft of this piece, my Readwise surfaced a highlight from Softwar, which I read five years ago, in which Ellison says: “If Detroit ran like Silicon Valley, nobody would sell cars—just parts. Customers would have to figure out which were the ‘best parts’ —... See more

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The reason Democrats just lost — by one point — is because they took on Russia, China, Tech, and Trump at once. They also alienated Israel, Saudi, and many smaller countries.

Republicans may be repeating this avoidable mistake by battling Democrats, Russia, China, Europe, Canada, Panama (?), and even Tech/Indians (!?!) — all at the same time.

To these three, I’ll add my favorite new idea as a fourth: contraptionism. So that’s the 4Cs of the imperative: Courage, Clarity, Creativity, Contraptionism.

The aesthetic and ethos that we need to guide the construction of a new machine is contraptionism . Because any new societal machine will inevitably be a janky affair, not just at inception,... See more

»Pay attention to anything that makes you feel good in your body, mind, and spirit—something that nurtures these three aspects of your being. Is there an alternative life out there for you that would fulfill these three pillars?«

— Cortney Cassidy in Growing beyond the computer.

One of the worst mistakes we ever made was making email instantaneous. We should have built in a two-hour buffer unless you flagged the email as time-sensitive or urgent. Why is that? Because now everybody has to check their email every 10 or 15 minutes on the off chance that someone has sent them a time-sensitive email. So the burden falls on the... See more

9. So much of education is teaching people context. That is why it is hard, and also why it often does not seem like real learning.