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

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

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

Founders 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.

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

The Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘brain rot’ which they defined as: “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such

Dirt • Dirt: Brain Rot

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

But when I am served videos by someone who has been anointed with this stardom I don’t feel like I am inhabiting someone else’s taste but, rather, the taste of the algorithm.

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.

When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic. We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of brand or story or a reflection of team cohesion, because investing on “vibes” or “look” or “mood” is very frowned upon. Even using it as a data point is beaten out of... See more

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