provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
We did not remain foragers after inventing agriculture. We did not remain farmers having invented industrial machines. We should not remain laborers having invented digital technologies.
-Albert Wenger, World after Capital
If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it—every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life.
Daniel McGinn • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
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If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to do it.
In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it.
-Richard Hamming
Being open and flexible to opportunity is sometimes more important than knowing what you’re trying to do.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Outflow determines inflow
"When it comes to utility and efficiency, we are misanthropists. We actually kind of hate other humans." - @cpaik, partner @PaceCap
"When you're in an Uber and (the driver) starts talking to you, you wish you were in a Waymo."
"We are actually very happy with humans being removed from these... See more
TBPNx.comI often think of Enya, refusing to listen to any music, in case it influences her
And Walt Disney, who became glued to TV, would watch anything, just to stay on top of the (new at the time) medium and what people were doing with it
Artistically, both of these seem valid
Simon Sarristwitter.comthere’s no one way to do anything. there’s just your way.