Ideas I want to write about
art is the curing of callousness
ayan artan • In Defense of Pretension.
The stories we find most engaging aren't perfect, but they are either told by someone we trust or are constructed to highlight whatever will resonate most with our thinking/liking.
These are the two most common elements a story needs to generate revenue and resonance.
It's Spielberg vs. Nolan: Messenger vs. Medium. One is known for using the message... See more
These are the two most common elements a story needs to generate revenue and resonance.
It's Spielberg vs. Nolan: Messenger vs. Medium. One is known for using the message... See more
Big as the what? Big as the Super Bowl: Marketing, Storytelling &...
“Mediocre V.C.s want to see that your company has traction,” Doshi told me. “The top V.C.s want you to show them you can invent the future.”
Tad Friend • The Mind of Marc Andreessen | The New Yorker
Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis
In Search of New Software Cultures
I will treat you with dignity, perhaps even kindness, but I am in no way interested in you.
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Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast —choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow.
In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes... See more
Patrick Collisonx.comWhy 84% of Enterprise Buyers Want a Live Demo Before Buying
Funnels Won’t Save You. Trust Networks Will
Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says... See more