Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
If the answers seem strange, so much the better. Great work often has a tincture of strangeness. You see this from painting to math. It would be affected to try to manufacture it, but if it appears, embrace it.
Boldly chase outlier ideas, even if other people aren't interested in them — in fact, especially if they aren't. If you're excited about... See more
Boldly chase outlier ideas, even if other people aren't interested in them — in fact, especially if they aren't. If you're excited about... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez
app.thestorygraph.com
“Attack ideas, not people” not only represents how you deal with people you don’t like but how you deal with people you do like. You should be able to analyze and interrogate the ideas of a friend without attacking your friend. Rather than beginning with “tariffs are bullshit” you start with “what are the potential weak points of tariffs”.
If everyone who posted on social media about “bringing manufacturing back” threw on a hardhat tomorrow, it still wouldn’t be enough to fill the five million U.S. manufacturing jobs lost between 2000 and 2010. Nor would it solve the issue of an aging workforce retiring faster than new recruits can be trained. Right now, more than 800,000 U.S.... See more
Who Wants to Work in a Factory? | ARENA
When you realize that you – the good, noble, well-meaning, even-tempered, fact-driven person that you are – have views of how the world works that are sure to be incomplete if not completely wrong, you should have empathy for others whose deluded beliefs are obvious to you.
Collab Fund • Respect Each Others' Delusions
Joe Rogan's model for content creation is under utilized
extremely libertarian model
No set schedule
takes time off when wanted
no need to announce
opposite of the "be consistent" model
consistency in the large scale not the small
large = over years & thousands of episodes
small = "every Monday at 3pm"
trust audience to regulate their own intake
records as
Some autistic people even adjust their clothes to become different characters
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