Ideas I want to write about

“Why isn’t it an app?” This argument feels like the make change from the inside. We know that’s not how the world works, but it’s hard to see that you’re in water as a fish.

But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.

one of the best sales advice we got back in YC was the "ikea effect":

if you are in the middle of a demo, never just open your laptop and show a generic feature dump. before you show anything, ask this:

"if you were in my shoes, what would this platform need to show you to prove it can solve your problem?"

the prospect will give you a checklist of 2-3... See more

doesn't reality always feel a bit tenuous in summer? The way the days lose structure, how they blend into one another, how time moves in funny ways.

Who does your business work for? If your only goal is profit, then it seems to serve only one group — the shareholders. But they’re only a part of the ecosystems your business belongs to.

Every company — big or small — serves six stakeholder groups:

1. Customers


2. Employees


3. Shareholders


4. Business partners


5. Society


6. Regulators

And they’re all equally important.... See more

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

I will treat you with dignity, perhaps even kindness, but I am in no way interested in you.

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