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"I call myself a farmer. Wall Street is flooded with hunters-people who try to go out and find the big game.
They fell it and bring it back, and there's a huge feast and everything is fabulous, and then they look for the next big game.
I plant seeds and then I spend all of my time cultivating them.”
—Thomas Russo" (William Green, Richer, Wiser,
... See moreReflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See moreQuality is so rare generally that people are often surprised by it.
Quality rarely happens as an accident, it usually means someone is willing to go further building something that necessarily. At least, someone has to be motivated and allowed to do it, not forced to solely focus on some measurements.
Quality, brand and culture are some of those... See more
Quality rarely happens as an accident, it usually means someone is willing to go further building something that necessarily. At least, someone has to be motivated and allowed to do it, not forced to solely focus on some measurements.
Quality, brand and culture are some of those... See more
Karri Saarinen • Tweet
via Packy McCormick
AI will take all that digital garbage and multiply it by a thousand. Or ten thousand. Or maybe more.
Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken
Things are not quite real until they acquire names and can be classified in some way. Curiosity about places is part of a general curiosity about things, part of the need to label experiences so that they have a greater degree of permanence and fit into some conceptual scheme.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
