provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
if you’re really good at what you do, you have the freedom to be who you really are
Sam Zell • Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
Draw a distinction – and cross it.
“…move beyond our comfortable binaries and recognise them as interfaces: places of friction, possibility, and perpetual movement. Every meaningful change, every genuine innovation, arises at the interface—where differences meet, transform, and evolve.”
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
The real world is all edge cases, all the time.
Jasmine • 🌻 42 notes on AI and work
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... See more
Dan Wang • Dan Wang
on my mind:
information can move at the speed of light but deep bonds and human connection cannot move faster than the rate at which trust can grow
sari azouttwitter.combeing too intellectual is a terrible danger. it takes you further from your basic truth. “don’t think - feel”
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”