provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted.
If you want to be read in the future, make sure you would have been read in the past. We have no idea of what’s in the future, but we have some knowledge of what was in the past. So I make sure I would have been read both in the past and in the present time, that is by both the comtemporaries and the dead. So I speculated that books that would have been relevant twenty years in the past (conditional of course of being relevant today) would be interesting twenty years in the future.
there are 9,000 problems in life that have the solution "know more local people" and people will do literally anything except spend time on that
Simon Sarristwitter.comWarren Buffett on identifying what matters:
"Write your obituary and try to figure out how to live up to it."
"Write your obituary and try to figure out how to live up to it."
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 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.
Rachel Katz • Confessions of an Entrepreneur
One does not get a jet engine by improving the propeller. One does not breed horses until they give birth to a car. Telephones did not come from research on mail. Where on earth did the inspiration for the transistor and these other "leaps" of innovation come from to begin with?
