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We come and go, like ripples in a stream
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Find a way to connect every project to something much bigger: a higher order value, a truth, a courageous goal, or a larger question. Then, if your efforts start to lag or feel mundane, return to that larger ideal that inspired you in the first place. It works.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
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 needed to go. Navigation was visual but that was normal. Except, I realised it wasn’t. When people stopped me in their cars to find their way to the nearest petrol station — this was 2004 and GPS was... See more
medium.com • On Being Lost
not specifically this post, but the graphics that accompanied it
The board revolt at OpenAI reminds me of my favorite idea from Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens.
The idea of the imagined intersubjective order. Companies are concepts of our collective imaginations. We call them legal entities and assign liability to them. They can be a vehicle for capturing value created by humans. They receive tax assessments. They can even be sued — absolving the people in charge of direct responsibility.
Yet, a company can be dissolved and reincarnated elsewhere by having the employees simply say they resigned and have moved to a new company. And that's how we keep lawyers employed. Tricks of our own cognition.
You get ~350k waking hours every year to do things.
You get 8 shots to do big/meaningful things in your life.
Wonderful.
working in the gulf of mexico, the preferred mode of transport to the deepwater rigs was helicopter. they were loud and required a lot of safety awareness from the passengers. you have to take and renew egress training every 5 years.
the alternative was riding a boat. if you got put on a boat because the weather was too rough for the helicopters,
... See moreBrief History of GPS | The Aerospace Corporation
aerospace.org
Maps foster innovation.
GPS + smartphones enabled Uber, DoorDash, etc.
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x.comKinship is a human need. Don't think too much of it. Commune.
Don't Fall Into the Trap of Taking the Wrong Lessons from Others' Success
Sarah Tavelopen.substack.com
Many such cases