Letter of Resignation from Sam Hinkie

21:40 - Science is good at the long game of extending the tip of human knowledge. While brazen startups are good at acting boldly off of naïveté.

I think the skill is holding both of those… to borrow a phrase from my wife, she loves this phrase, “holding both of those things in your head at the same time.” One is absolute dedication and commitment to a vision of the future that you see, your recursive vision about the future. And two, an utter lack of bias or pre-determined thought on how yo... See more

Rational thinking is driven by what we’ve seen and done before. It keeps us where we’ve been. But the greatest products that change our lives are made by teams willing to consider old problems in new, seemingly irrational ways. When someone on your team shares an idea or perspective that, at first, seems completely irrational but then gradually bec

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