Damn
Stuff I either 1) felt, like physically shaken by or 2) couldn’t imagine another human being saw in the same way (read: someone read my mind)
Damn
How about you remain competitive by fixing your shit? I've met a lead data scientist with access to hundreds of thousands of sensitive customer records who is allowed to keep their password in a text file on their desktop, and you're worried that customers are best served by using AI to improve security through some mechanism that you haven't even... See more
When I read this I suddenly thought, the same is felt by many businesses towards social media trends: they believe the need to jump on the TikTok bandwagon or start making more Instagram reels because they need to “remain competitive” – yet they haven’t spent a minute thinking about the product or their current shitty marketing (that you’re better off fixing than botching by adding a layer of social media banalities to it)
In the late 1990s, Julia Hill climbed a 200-foot, approximately 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree & didn’t come down for another 738 days. She ultimately reached an agreement with Pacific Lumber Company to spare the tree and a 200-foot buffer zone surrounding the tree.
Solutions beat subscriptions.
We don't want more things to read. We want fewer things to worry about.
Your subscribers aren't buying content, they're buying peace of mind. They want to stop researching, stop second-guessing, stop wondering if they're missing something important.
We don't want more things to read. We want fewer things to worry about.
Your subscribers aren't buying content, they're buying peace of mind. They want to stop researching, stop second-guessing, stop wondering if they're missing something important.
People want you to make their life easier, not to add work to their plate
we have the opportunity now, as a species fully in touch with each other [think social media] to unlearn and relearn our own patterns of thinking and storytelling in a way that allows us to be actually in communion with our environment as opposed to a dominating, colonialist separation from the environment. I think in our education in particular,... See more
The Making of a Love Letter | Sierra Club
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
If you've never worked on this skillset and also don't know what the market salary is, how is the candidate supposed to trust that this screening is going to be successful. The hiring team doesn't know the position, so if you're the candidate how do you have confidence they are going to be able to effectively and fairly assess any candidates?
One talking about clueless hiring practices and how candidates often get screwed up in the process
"I bring things to people's attention."
Rusty Blazenhoff • How to better answer "So, what do you do?"
Is this what I do?
Instead of productivity, we focus on intentionality. It's not about how much you do, but about knowing why you're doing what you're doing, seeing dreams come to life, and having fun while you're doing it. Here are Intend's four principles for getting into flow and staying in touch with what matters to you:
choosing & doing, over organizing
aliveness,
✨every app that adds AI looks like this✨
open.substack.com
Read my fucking mind with this one
“Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing”