Daniel da Rocha
@danroc
Daniel da Rocha
"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert
applies to every creative project
As opposed to the charlatans who desire influence for its own sake, or the martyrs who are too bitter to talk earnestly about their value, hustlers thrive as a natural outcome of their comfort in advocating for the high value work they believe in. Hustlers don’t have time to feel sorry for themselves because they’re too busy creating a new reality,... See more
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
Insight from Patrick O'Shaughnessy podcast episode with the Collison brothers:
Software is this intersection between creative work and mechanical industrial work, which is why there's a lot of people who have tried to put $1 billion dollars into software but it hasn't resulted in high quality software.
It's similar to Hollywood, where you can... See more
Computer architecture isn’t telling a machine what to do. It’s establishing the possibility that it can be told anything at all. The work is superhuman, if not fully alien. Put it this way: If you found the exact place in a human being where matter becomes mind, where body becomes soul—a place that no scientist or philosopher or spiritual figure ha... See more