Thought poking
Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh
Thought poking
“Just that. Listen, wasn’t it Odo who said that where there’s property there’s theft?” “ ‘To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.’
Ursula K. LeGuin • The Dispossessed (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
Keys to a story:
Invoke wonder
Make the audience care
Give 2+2, not 4
There must be change
Rivian Founder RJ Scaringe Is Building The Future: Leadership, Mindset, Innovation, & His Mission To Decarbonize Transportation
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What you build matters more than what you could have built.
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Actions speak louder than words
Being wrong isn’t something to fear but rather something to expect.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #629
Virtuous trade-offs are different from normal hard-choice trade-offs. If you can make a virtuous trade-off, you end up with two good attributes, instead of one good and one bad. This is really creative simplifying -- ingenuity that trumps iron laws.
Price Simplifying Vs. Proposition Simplifying: Understanding Your Options | Entrepreneur
You can have both price-simplifying (mass market) and proposition-simplifying (premium market)
I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they’ve worked out on all kinds of things, but we’re subject to a tremendous number of outside influences and the vast majority of them cannot be predicted. So my idea is to stay flexible.
-Henry Singleton
Don’t predict, position yourself for success no matter what
Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny.
The courage isn’t in taking on more, it’s in cutting off everything that doesn’t feed your goal.
Focus requires subtraction.
-Shane Parrish
my bold; from Brain Food #632
... See moreMaintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going.
Every living thing spends a great deal of time and toil in maintaining its own life and the life of the systems it depends on. Plants tend the life of the soil they grow in. Beavers maintain their dams and thereby the pond that protects them. Humans maintain their bodies, their
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