Random Abstract
The tweet that can be retweeted is not the eternal kernel. Lather, rinse, retweet. This too is panicky. [Twitter tagline, Laurence Chen]
No, I shan’t let this become “a better Pinterest”.
Joseph Schillinger’s Reharmonization Dial (1940) and a Bit More (The Hum Blog) : https://t.co/vwwKk7uG3w https://t.co/W8nYfxnRJH
there’s this struggle in my head. Is the world ending, or is it a nice day and I’m getting coffee? Obviously, it’s not a binary thing, but living this way is sometimes brain-scrambling. It’s not like the constant doom and gloom of Twitter was making me a better climate activist. Instead I’d be paralyzed. Twitter incentivizes you to live in this... See more
Charlie Warzel • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Yes. Regrettably, it’s also how it’s used; how one filters signal from the taxing noise. Twitter has been positive for a few, much more negative for many more. But a few figured out the compounding formula.
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
... See morePhil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
So if you have large-scale bureaucracies that need to be organized and function coherently, then you need these kind of simple, nuance-free packets of information. And I think that’s one of the reasons we’ve seen this constant rise of simplified metrical analysis.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
Generalists thrive in early stage companies where it’s small and people are nimble. There’s much more opportunity for the generalist. –Britt Gage