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the first time you do something that everyone in your social environment tells you is a bad idea, and it turns out you were right, is more psychoactive than any drug
"well, that escalated quickly."
Amazing visualization of every space launch in history by @Peterincan, guiding the simple realization that we are in the second Golden Age of space. https://t.co/o8oYGJRu46
I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam.
10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis.
The half life of knowledge is the ... See more
Technology changed how we think and what we think about. But also what we remember and for how long. And perhaps, in the future, if we remember…
Great thread on current flying cars
I need a good image to symbolize the Whispering Earring
it’s only going to become more relevant https://t.co/SWNMrqHpev
Leverage and
Convenience can indeed become a burden
The industry’s biggest recruiting challenge, however, is the industry’s invisibility. It’s a truism that people don’t think about infrastructure until it breaks, but they tend not to think about the fixing of it, either. In his 2014 essay, “Rethinking Repair,” professor of information science Steven Jackson argued that contemporary thinking about technology romanticizes moments of invention over the ongoing work of maintenance, though it is equally important to the deployment of functional technology in the world. There are few better examples than the subsea cable industry, which, for over a century, has been so effective at quickly fixing faults that the public has rarely had a chance to notice. Or as one industry veteran put it, “We are one of the best-kept secrets in the world, because things just work.”
An essay: Why founders fail, despite being good at coding and high IQ.
Being mathematically smart hurts startup founders.
Math doesn’t account for emotions, and this is why devs easily build useful products but fail to get to Product Market Fit in 99% cases.
Imagine you’re building a building to sell. As a good builder, you put great effort into... See more
h/t @emmettshear, via @joshualelon on Twitter