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

Jonathan Quaade

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

inspiration is an emotion a reference makes you feel a certain way — you study the reference to understand what exactly about it makes you feel then you experiment to recreate that emotion anything else is just copying

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But for me, for now, the friction is what I’m looking for. I am grateful — genuinely — for what Google and Apple and others did to make digital life easy over the past two decades. But too much ease carries a cost. I was lulled into the belief that I didn’t have to make decisions. Now my digital life is a series of monuments to the cost of... See more

Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.

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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Claude

don't spend any time worrying about what other investors do I spent all my time studying great companies and studying great Industries if Nick and Zach were worried about what other investors were doing at this time they wouldn't be doing what they're doing they wouldn't have been buying Amazon they wouldn't have been talking about Costco

Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters

Li Lu & Nick Sleep

Take the time to listen to smart people with whom you disagree.

This is not easy to do. Over time, any firm will find that certain methods and biases tend to work very well, and the more successful it is, the more it will develop its own unique mindset. We couldn’t succeed without the methods and principles that we learn over time, nor can we

Joe Lonsdale • Lessons from Peter Thiel

Vi Hart’s Internet Votes (written 2015, published 2017):

On the internet, content rises to the top if it wins the popular vote. But unlike modern implementations of democracy, you get as many votes as you have time to give, all day every day, and most of those votes are taken by web companies without asking. And unlike the popular vote in democracy,

Sean • Knowing Things Is Hard

(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.)