provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
As an operator, doing nothing is never the right strategy.
As an investor, doing nothing is often the right strategy.
Geoff Lewistwitter.cominvesting vs. operating requires entirely different skills
This is the paradox of our time: the very tools designed to free us from labor are trapping us in an endless cycle of escalating work. As our productivity increases, our standards and expectations rise even faster, creating a psychological Jevons Paradox that threatens to consume our humanity in the pursuit of ever-greater output. We become victims... See more
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
"People don't remember books; they remember sentences."
I can't find who said this first but it's so true.
Morgan Houseltwitter.com
LOVE. what a beautiful provocation on aging.
One of the biggest reasons it gets harder to do new things as you get older is that new things are generally undignified at first (indeed, this is an excellent heuristic for discovering them) and the older you get, the more dignified you're expected to be.
Paul Grahamtwitter.com
The American Psychological Association once invited William James to give a talk on the first 50 years of psychology research.
He simply said: “People by and large become what they think of themselves.”
Then, he left.
David Perellx.com“People become what they think of themselves”
Figma acquisition shows how hard it is to turn money into software. You'd think for $20B you could build something as good as Figma yourself, but you can't. Software is art.
Nathan Manousostwitter.com“What we can say is just a fraction of what we're thinking. What we're thinking is a fraction of articulations of what we perceive. What we perceive is a fraction of what is actually in front of us. And what is in front of us is a small fraction, a tiny fraction of what exists. But we believe that by wording things, by saying things, we can see
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