Being a product person

If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just...” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.

Everyone will not just

Notes towards becoming a better investor

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Summarizing Kola 🔑’s idea from a conversation:

Our methods of critiquing software are shallow. We have reviews, reactions, tutorials, puff-pieces, and clout-chasers. It’s important to have independent, thorough, and cultural critique, and it should be distributed among those who are building the future (The Paolo Alto Review).

This isn’t about rev

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500

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I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!) as well as the value of connoisseurship and curation in a culture where unthinking automation has left us feeling drowned in a deluge of content.

I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the influenc... See more

well lol i finally got laid off...but on the bright side.......

Now thinking about creating a movement to promote "hobbit software". Pretty chill, keeps to itself, tends to its databases, hangs out with other hobbit software at the pub, broadly unbothered by the scheming of the wizards and the orcs, oblivious to the rise and fall of software empires around them.

Oh, the Electron empire is going to war with the R... See more

Dave Anderson • Dave Anderson (@danderson@hachyderm.io)

A Man Bakes Soulful Bread in a Renovated Garage | Sourdough Bread Making in Japan

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what is so interesting about baking bread?

“I’m always thinking about... It reminds me of the first person I was. Kids going crazy about beetle catching, playing in the water, etc. There's no reason for that one. They're just absorbed in it. But as we grow up, we tend to look for reasons and logic for such behaviour.
No, it's not that. [It’s] that kind of obsessed, sensory, original self. When I'm kneading dough by myself in a place like this, that's what it reminds me of.
So my mental age is getting more and more childish. I'm becoming a social misfit. I'm getting further and further away from organizational people."

The funny thing about coming up with your own definition of success is it becomes easier to make decisions.

sublimeinternet.substack.com • Lessons I'm Still Learning

An idea: create a Little Free Bakery that’s like Japanese vending machines. Use a token or scanning QR thing to unlock and get free bread