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Excerpt: “Over the last 15 years, Excel has been unbundled into a host of other apps, such as Asana, Looker, and QuickBooks. But this unbundling was only possible once Excel became ubiquitous enough for users to know they wanted a purpose-made alternative. In order for that to happen, Excel needed widespread adoption with power users who began using it for niche workflows that it wasn’t originally designed to support.
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Once those workflows were created, the power users realized that parts of their workflow were inefficient, or that features were missing for their use cases. They felt a need for purpose-built tools—and that became the opportunity for B2B SaaS to develop into a $327 billion market.”
“People who are direct are generally in touch with themselves and their desires. People who are habitually indirect usually aren’t.
This is because people who are indirect don’t have much experience with their inner world making contact with the outer world. They sit and theorize instead of saying it out loud and seeing... See more
Perfect is the enemy of done
Inaction is the enemy of action
Inaction in search of perfection is the enemy of action
While we wait for flying cars, here’s our flying boat - @navierboat N30! Alameda to downtown SF is now 12 mins and I love the stunning view of the city and the Bay Bridge!
Foiling across the Bay (and skipping the traffic, obviously!) https://t.co/wXtlAq40tp
Sampriti Bhattacharyyax.com
If the polynesian wayfinding tradition had died out just a couple centuries earlier, so that we didn't have living practitioners as a matter of record,
they'd tell us that navigating the pacific like that was impossible and those stories were just legends and allegories
More on Polynesian navigation
How Japan ignored climate critics and built a global natural gas empire
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Every six hours, somewhere in the world, an LNG shipment controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port. However, these tankers are only the tip of the iceberg
A thread... See more
coordination and Infrastructure Tales
So beautiful
Much of our seeming intelligence actually comes not from raw brainpower or a plethora of instincts, but rather from the accumulated repertoire of mental tools (e.g., integers), skills (differentiating right from left), concepts (fly wheels), and categories (basic color terms) that we inherit culturally from earlier generations.
Joseph Henrich • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
If you plan to do something for a long time, plan to do it well