Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Why would I send you to the hell site when I can just post this exceptional tweetstorm about why that sweater costs $500 publicly on Reader?
From When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media by Leonardo Bursztyn, Benjamin Handel, Rafael Jim ´ enez-Dur´an, and Christopher Roth
Matt Webb made a clock called Poem/1 and he's funding it on Kickstarter. So lovely.
Almost everything is downstream of integrity
Scott Sumner • My Final EconLog Post
Big or small, old or new — or even hardware or software. It’s always true: underpromising and overdelivering is always the path to delight, but also always devilishly difficult to pull off. That’s the game.
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Hardware is hard and Experience is everything
Leave it to Gruber to say this in a way that just lands. Eric’s tweet was also great.
It’s mediocre tools that we have to watch out for. They quietly and persistently corrupt our intent and force us to work harder on the parts that don’t matter as much.
Mediocre tools
If these aren’t Berlin vibes, then I don’t know what are. This thing where these formerly magnificent cities are now at this tense, awkward place, where people are trying to proceed with the cushy things, but the fascism is getting less coy, to say the least. I feel like I’ve been seeing other people say it, but you can definitely cross-reference... See more
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A tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer , standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with... See more