Ideas I want to write about

Ideas contain inner tensions that push them forward. Progress through contradiction, and then reconciliation.

Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis.

Data becomes information when at least one of two related things are true:

1. We learn something for next time

2. We make different decisions or take new actions

If you’re not getting one of these things, then the data is simply noise. A distraction that wastes our time and confuses us.

Einstein says, what characterizes the modern age is optimization of means, yet confusion of goals.

Apple’s traditional power was its mastery of the user interface—–the technology that mediates between a human user and their digital tools and content.

OpenAI will now get an opportunity to define the ideal software-hardware fusion for the new computing paradigm it helped usher in.

“AI is such a big leap forward in terms of what people can do that i

Apple’s traditional power was its mastery of the user interface—–the technology that mediates between a human user and their digital tools and content.

If your mind is loud — Write.

If your mind is empty — Read.

If your mind is racing — Walk.

If your mind is tired — Sleep.

If your mind is sharp — Build.

Most problems are just mismatched energy. Get the inputs right, the rest follows.

The unheralded force behind important non-profits and creators of all kinds : Not mattering a little to the masses, but mattering a lot to a focused group, one that supports the work and spreads the word.

Choose your fans, choose your future.

Ignorance doesn’t mean stupid. It simply means you don’t know what you don’t know.

Often the answer was there and you didn’t look. That’s not ignorance. That’s quiet incompetence. Not malicious. Not lazy. Just… avoidant.

You didn’t fail because it was hidden. You failed because you didn’t look.

• James Sinclair
  

“Every entrepreneur knows the feeling: that moment of despair when the only thing you are aware of is the giant gap between where you find yourself and the life and business you imagine. Once you succeed, people see only the success. If you fail, they see only the failure. Rarely do they see the turning points that could have taken you in a complet