Brian Sholis

* “The 10 Club is a group of 10 people you want to work with later in life, and every member should be kind, ambitious, and generous.”

* “The most impactful mitigation strategy is to accept that lossiness exists.”

- “the focus of software services has shifted from manipulating data to manipulating workflows.”

"The only way to make sure that junior staff get the support they need is to hold managers accountable for their growth."

- “On the elegant analog clock, meanwhile, time swells and recedes, like waves and seasons and life. The hands evoke the rotation of the earth, the movements of celestial objects, the cosmos.”

- “When making decisions about life right now, we often apply different standards to ourselves than to other people—but, when we make decisions about our future selves, we use the same standards. Thinking about our future selves has even been shown to resemble third-person thinking at the neural level.”

* "Sometimes, to be a resident of polite society, you have to lie, and this feels unpleasant for a moment but is usually bearable. But lying to an empty page alone in a room feels awful."

- "conscious self-branding — an exhausting obligation for many under current labor market conditions — is in tension with its underlying structure of ubiquitous surveillance: how strategically one chooses to present oneself now inescapably occurs within this unchosen context of being tracked and documented and predicted. The efforts made to avoid... See more