advice for when you wanna start something
Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
So how can we get people to accept a new idea? Show how it is a natural extension of the things they already believe.
How Ideas Grow
My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is more
... See more"Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm."
Richard Whittaker • Owen Egerton, Austin's Man of Letters, Leaves the Community He Loves
"what is the smallest amount of progress that will be useful and valuable to the essential task we are trying to get done?"
minimal viable progress
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
