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Things I'm Thinking About
Most of the social internet has become about building an audience and connecting people to brands and influencers. It’s better understood as a performance by the top 1%, not as a way to exchange knowledge or connect people to one another.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
Self-doubt kills more early stage companies than competition or lack of funding ever will. We talk about companies needing financial capital, but rarely about the importance of emotional capital.
For most people, adjusting their self-image accounts for the difference between giving up and reaching their potential. Want to make the world a better pla... See more
For most people, adjusting their self-image accounts for the difference between giving up and reaching their potential. Want to make the world a better pla... See more
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
The most important role in a social network is the vibe designer, because the big questions are sociological, not technological.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
“chief vibe architect”
The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
there’s something here… i can’t pin-point it quite yet. see: marcus aurelius meditations.
Curation is so deeply under-explored on the Internet in my opinion. It sits right in between consumption and creation and is the perfect bridge between the two, allowing us to actively engage with what we consume to then produce work from this saved knowledge.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately just want to create work they’re proud of.
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately just want to create work they’re proud of.
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
There are two types of founders.
Those who do lots of research, validate ideas, test many prototypes, and iteratively get to a product. This is a more technical and user-focused approach.
The other is where the product vision emerges fully-formed in the founder’s eye before it is brought to existence. Here, the founder zeroes in on their self express... See more
Those who do lots of research, validate ideas, test many prototypes, and iteratively get to a product. This is a more technical and user-focused approach.
The other is where the product vision emerges fully-formed in the founder’s eye before it is brought to existence. Here, the founder zeroes in on their self express... See more
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
Being a founder requires constant calibration between arrogance and humility, optimism and pessimism. You need the arrogance to believe that you have something important to say, but the humility to know most people won’t care. You need the optimism to convince yourself and others (employees, investors, customers) to believe in you. But you need pes... See more