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Elon Musk favors biographies and historical study as a training ground for leadership and strategy, using lessons from other great leaders to inform his decisions and mental models.
What is the comparative value of digital art that doesn’t exist physically compared to something like a painting?
If we believe it to be of lesser value then will art itself lose value the more that creating is done digitally?
YouTube is increasingly product-driven.
There’s a video of Donald Trump pointing out uneven pavers to the groundskeeper at Mar a Lago.
he says he does the same with at the White House
YouTube’s content flow interrupts commercials with more commercials.
Margaret Thatcher was said to read every word of her reports rather than just the executive summaries.
And she had excellent recall of details.
Use projects to parse effort over time and allow things to easily be picked up and continued at any time
Government responses can use carefully chosen language to answer the question asked rather than the question intended, creating an appearance of transparency while withholding relevant meaning.
When questioned about UFOs, officials might respond about aliens, enabling a denial about alien beings that does not address reports of unidentified flying
When looking for details or fresh, unexpected ideas to add to a piece you are writing re-read notebooks.