Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
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.
But something profound is happening. Instead of smirking at religion, some of our most important philosophers, novelists, and public intellectuals are now reassessing their contempt for it. They are wondering if they might have missed something.
How Intellectuals Found God
I’m going to have to consider my personal texts. Via Kottke.
The average job opening last quarter received 242 applications, according to exclusive data from hiring-software provider Greenhouse. That means you have a 0.4% chance of getting the average job you apply for. Meanwhile, the acceptance rate for thatschool near Boston: 3.6%.
You're now more likely to get into Harvard than to find a job
This game looks absolutely ridiculous! Via Leonard
Atomic is doing an MDR Dasher Keyboard. I’m not going to order one, but daaaaamn.
I don’t need more things to look at from people I don’t know.
Nick Catucci • My Internet: Alison Roman
There has been a seismic shift in age-wealth profiles in the U.S. over years 1983 to 2022. The most notable is the sharp rise in the relative household wealth of age group 75 and over. Correspondingly, the relative wealth holdings of all other age groups dropped over these years.
