✨ Where great ideas come from
one of my favorite parts about living in the heart of nyc is the ability to walk literally everywhere.
i usually walk ~25k steps every single day—it is one of the best methods for thinking & re-thinking (along with long showers).
most ppl do not acknowledge this huge upside of nyc living enough.
Walking your brain
Taste is eating software. Taste is the new weapon.
Anu Atluru • Taste is Eating Silicon Valley.
Utility plus taste is the foundation of software now
“Everything I do is just personal taste and it’s what [my book The Creative Act] is about. Really, for [people and artists] to trust in themselves. Make something that speaks to themselves. And hopefully someone else will like it. But you can’t second-guess your own taste for what someone else is going to like. It won’t be good. We’re not smart eno... See more
Write For Yourself
Trust your taste. Do what’s personal to you, take it as far you can go.
The idea of putting things in a box just doesn’t work for me. It worked for a generation that was supposed to be where they are. My story starts from immigrant parents from Ghana in West Africa. On the will of my dad making it to America, I was afforded the range of options opposite from a third world country.
Being an outsider allowed Abloh to appr... See more
Trung Phan • 9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
The importance of an outsider perspective
In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for ... See more
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for ... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Process vs. intuition
Obsession > Talent
Exceptional people grow up in exceptional milieus
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exception... See more
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exception... See more
Childhoods of Exceptional People
The adults had high expectations of the children; they assumed they had the capacity to understand complex topics, and therefore invited them into serious conversations and meaningful work, believing them capable of growing competent rapidly.
5 lessons from one of the best books I’ve ever read
youtube.comPlay is unlocked when we lower the stakes. (Relax for the same results)