Andrew McCluskey

As we grow accustomed to the convenience of shuffling a generated playlist, we forget that discovering music is an active exercise.

I don’t know why we talk about walled gardens.

That seems to imply something beautiful, something worth defending.

It conjures images of beautifully maintained flowerbeds protected from the outside world. But that’s not what Facebook built, what Instagram built, what Twitter built.

They built paved, unshaded, barren hellscapes, trapped us in them,... See more

I'M BLOWN AWAY. Andrej Karpathy just explained Software 3.0 at YC. BIG IDEAS: English is coding. AI is electricity. And, build for LLMs, not just people. Key takeaways: https://t.co/PMn7StW3Vj

• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.

• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.

• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.

• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.

• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.

• If you stop to listen

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‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen.