Elena

Myself and people my age have been trained under the illusion that we can effectively eliminate any and all friction from our lives. We can work from home, Amazon prime everything we need, swipe through a limitless array of mediocre dates, text our therapist, and have a person go to the grocery store for us when we don’t feel like it, all while con... See more

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly com pulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only acciden tally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Focus on Joaquin. Pull focus to window. Gaga draws perfect smile. Pull focus back to Joaquin. Joaquin moves head. Joaquin smiles perfectly. You are in the hands of fucking professionals.

Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, classified innovations as either sustaining — the ones which kept an industry on the same path it was already on, or disruptive, ones that set the industry on a new trajectory.

Sustaining innovation is driven by optimizing for metrics, measuring the quantitative and qualitative feedback fro... See more

The thing about jumping through your window when it opens is that it causes it to stay opened longer. Hiring great people raises the bar internally on execution. Growth sustains if not accelerates. Things start to compound more and more. A window that might be open for a few months can stay opened for several.

But eventually the window will close. T... See more