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It's far easier to automate tasks than it is to automate jobs. Tasks (ex: creating a status report) tend to be specific, self-contained and legible in

⚡️This is the record of a species that discovered a cheat code and has no intention of ever giving it up. Inflation is not an accident. It is not a f

It's far easier to automate tasks than it is to automate jobs. Tasks (ex: creating a status report) tend to be specific, self-contained and legible in

⚡️This is the record of a species that discovered a cheat code and has no intention of ever giving it up. Inflation is not an accident. It is not a f

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There’s No Speed Limit

Dashboard or Pipes? Every startup needs to make a choice: is their product a dashboard product or a pipes product? Dashboard products are used direc

The reason to avoid lying is that the brain is not type safe. Lying to others and lying to yourself are the same motion.

i don’t know anything but my experience of aging so far has been a series of sudden& humiliating realizations that every cliche made meaningless b

There’s No Speed Limit

Nobody tells you how much of business is just repeating yourself endlessly & relentlessly but it does explain why this field selects for people wh

Do It Scared I believe many young people struggle with the insecurity of being intelligent. They often feel the need to prove their intelligence by o

omakase software in a world where anyone can build anything, most won’t. if previous consumer behaviour tells us anything, it’s that we value conveni

Half a century before Goethe devised his theory of color and emotion, Nightingale notes the invigoration produced by warm, bright colors and the weary

omakase software in a world where anyone can build anything, most won’t. if previous consumer behaviour tells us anything, it’s that we value conveni

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for many people, your 30s are when the world of your childhood begins to fall apart. your parents and family age, get sick. time happens to people, an

where you work literally determines: 1) how much you learn 2) how good your colleagues are 3) what you make 4) your brand and many other things, and

Aggregation Theory

In 1820, if you wanted to discover a new idea, you’d probably sail to a new continent

The first, and most obvious thing, is that they are visual. If I was going to move a piece on a map then I could point to where it was and where it ne

What Alan Kay has been emphasizing, and which is now at the heart of Bret Victor’s design philosophy, is that the computer is a “dynamic medium.” The

Consider this: if “talk to customers” is the biggest secret to product success, then why aren’t more products successful? Why are so many founders uns

An essay: Why founders fail, despite being good at coding and high IQ. Being mathematically smart hurts startup founders. Math doesn’t account for e

for an idea to shape society it must be communicated. There are many technical challenges to communicating ideas, and one of the more important ones i

Reaching wide audiences requires all-terrain language, and the urgency of the present moment, amplified by chronological feeds, doesn’t allow for much

Putting Ideas Into Words

Simple writing also lasts better. People reading your stuff in the future will be in much the same position as people from other countries reading it

a personally fulfilling and socially useful life of the mind

The internet taught us to consume everything. Save everything. Remember everything. But wisdom isn't about remembering more. It's about knowing what t

A digital communal garden. Shared beauty and care.