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We don't repeat certain things because we think they're obvious to everyone. They're not
Nobody tells you how much of business is just repeating yourself endlessly & relentlessly but it does explain why this field selects for people wh
That’s why attempts to install the andon cord and other aspects of the Toyota system in American car factories have generally produced mediocre result
This is an idea I'm still workshopping. In summary, new knowledge gets created or discovered over time, as long as people seek it. When that new knowledge is discovered, the means for communicating this new knowledge is poorly defined and crystallizes over time. The best example is language. It is one tool that really separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. As Yuval Noah Harari describes in Sapiens, the ability of humans to organize and take action based on things that are not real is not seen elsewhere. People go to war over trivial matters. The ancient Egyptians built pyramids to bury their pharaohs. Language is a cognitive tool. But we have different types of languages now. Languages to express different ideas concisely. Mathematics, musical notation, programming languages, football play calls, internet slang, etc. A new cognitive revolution is brewing - AI. There is a lot of talk about it positive and negative. The risks are real and AI is becoming more accessible. I think it is a democratizing tool. But democracies require participation. We've watched as people have used the internet to leverage themselves to abundance and influence. We've also seen people describe what it's like to be on the other end of that. AI promises to be much more and much faster. What happens when you don't partake in a cognitive revolution? I intended this as an article for my blog a few weeks ago. But I didn't think it was ready yet. I still don't. Hoping to connect the dots here over time.
⚡️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
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Everything in our world is there because someone decided it needed to exist. We all have things we know need to exist. What stops us from making them exist?
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
Notes on designing products [good and bad]
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
Tools for thought
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
hard to explain but easy to love. how do you describe Sublime to a friend?
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.