Ian Vanagas

 We do not create or “have” ideas—if anything is doing the creating or having, it is the ideas themselves.

As a writer, looking for evidence of readership and engagement on Twitter makes you into the drunk looking for your lost keys under the street light.

Every project provides a story about the access they provide. The projects and communities that succeed create the best stories about why their access is most valuable.

Games have 1. variable outcomes, 2. frequency, and 3. sense of control. These create addiction, not flow.

4) Once trained, what is the model able to generalize to, in regards to input/output pairs it hasn’t seen before?

One thing that sets these intensely creative individuals apart, as far as I can tell, is that when sitting with their thoughts they are uncommonly willing to linger in confusion.To be curious about that which confuses.

Jeff Jordan – who’s been involved in everything from eBay to OpenTable to Airbnb – said off the cuff “the secret to everything I’ve done, and it’s not a secret, is economic empowerment. It is building things that help people make money.”