provocations
- This is the first and most important test of alternative values. Can you take your own exit, and stay on the road. If the answer is no, there's no there there.
from SAVE THE INTERNET by Reggie James
aron added 14d ago
- In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more
from Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? by Rory Sutherland
sari added 1mo ago
- As a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks,
I could do better than that.from Taste for Makers by Paul Graham
sari added 5mo ago
- I know that the people who will make you feel warm and fuzzy when you’re sad, and the people who will give you brutally honest feedback, are usually different people. Ideally you want to have relationships with both kinds, and reward them for their strengths, rather than getting mad at them for failing to do what they’re bad at.
phoebe added 5mo ago
- Silence is not just the absence of noise but the presence of truth.
Alara added 8mo ago
- it matters whom we put on the stages of our world, whom we adore. Our collective love has been wildly misappropriated, particularly in Silicon Valley, but also all over the place.
from Confessions of an Entrepreneur by Rachel Katz
sari added 9mo ago
- 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 moreandrea added 9mo ago
I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.
- Charles Horton Cooleyfrom i am who i think you think i am by botharetrue.substack.com
sari added 9mo ago
- One of the questions I ask my SF friends is what the entrepreneurial 20-year-olds are doing these days. Are they starting a billion-dollar company, or are they more interested in becoming a memelord who is trying to incite a movement on the Internet? I’m not sure we’re seeing a surge of exciting startup creation, but we sure are seeing a lot more o... See more
from Dan Wang
sari added 9mo ago