drink from different fountains
most stuff out there and online is junk and you know. also add another collection for reading and exploring concepts for longer than a single article or video
drink from different fountains
but why did you make it xyz“ because it’s fun, because I like it, because why not, because I can, because it doesn’t matter, because no one can tell me not to, because it felt right, because it makes me happy when I look at it, because i don't need a reason
The tyranny of the contextualizer online is their constant and immovable presence between the reader and the text, the listener and the music, the viewer and the film. We now reach for context before engaging with the content. When my first interaction with a song is through TikTok reactions, I no longer encounter the work as it is, on my own. It... See more
Don’t buy into the VC hype on this one. There will not be one tool to serve new internet-first communities.
Subpixel Space • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
Return to first principles and act quickly on your new conclusions.
It’s very easy to take the world as it is, as opposed to envisioning it as you want it to be. For example, when re-designing a feature, one approach is to take what you have, and imagine small changes that will solve the problems with the feature. Instead, it’s often instructive
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Peter Thiel
you have to be a learning machine you have to be doing the work now he he
referenced many times that it takes a long time now but it makes you go faster later on but that you'll study something he would study like an American company for like 15 years it would take him 15 years to find the Asian counterpart Nick is telling us something very similar
... See moreFounders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
First part is Li Lu
Is this what I've been doing? I've been preparing and learning constantly to get to this point. And that's the long term mindset combined with a single idea and the memory as a service. I want you to encourage and explore but also to learn so that when you're ready you'll have done all the preparation you need to seize the opportunity.
(I told someone recently that the specific joy of stalking someone else’s Spotify account has been lost as more and more playlists are generated by the platform. It’s the opposite of intimacy, isn’t it? To stalk an algorithm? Like climbing a tree to look into your crush’s window and realizing someone else got there first...please don’t do this.)
it creates the friction for those that weren't going to participate anyway, forming that thin line we refer to as a border. Without borders, we don't have distinction. Without distinction, we can't define alternative values. Exclusion has a function.
I got really into a strange style of Twitter usage popularized by @visakanv and @Conaw. They would use Twitter as a sort of note-taking app or memex : weaving intricate webs of ideas, using Twitter’s quote-tweet and linking mechanisms for connecting related thoughts.
For your next side project, make a browser extension
Midgley specifically challenged Descartes' famous thought experiment where he sits by his fireplace and questions everything he can possibly doubt, including the existence of other people. Descartes concludes that the only thing he can know with absolute certainty is that he is thinking (and therefore exists) - the famous "Cogito, ergo sum."
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