provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
what is ine idea you’d defend like this?
Dear @Apple, not a complaint, but an emoji curiosity: help me understand why 📈is red, and not green. And why 📉 is blue, and not red.
Danny Meyertwitter.comlove observations like these. we assume people inside legit institutions are all competent, when the truth is everyone is just winging it and we can always make things better.
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.“ - Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the
... See moreFounders love ambitious deadlines. But great execution comes from ambitious goals with flexible timelines. Let the work define the schedule, not the other way around.
Hiten Shahx.comPeople around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.
Robert Greene • Mastery
these tools benefit the highly skilled more than the less skilled .
How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops
referring to AI
Normal behavior is forgotten. Only weird behavior survives.
Nobody tells stories of when you did the expected — they only tell stories when you did the unexpected.
Normal behavior costs nothing in the short term — but it disappears into the abyss.
Unconventional behavior costs a social price in the short term — but the actions live on as story assets... See more
Nobody tells stories of when you did the expected — they only tell stories when you did the unexpected.
Normal behavior costs nothing in the short term — but it disappears into the abyss.
Unconventional behavior costs a social price in the short term — but the actions live on as story assets... See more
for the first 20 years we teach people to fit in.then they have to unlearn that and figure out how to stand out