Ian Vanagas

Companies talked about "delighting their users" because they ran out of ideas.

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.

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Perhaps no other civilization, either in antiquity or today, was so fond of legible and governable social realities (than the Roman empire).

Bitcoin is always the most honest market in the world, the most efficient market and it was the canary in the coal mine.

We are on a trend “inward”, where capital, our proxy for GDP, is better served deployed into things that generate more capital, instead of things that generate production.

DOOM embraced the idea of shared creativity. Rather than requiring the user to start from a blank slate, DOOM provided the structure and tools which allowed people to re-combine and add things to an existing system. This lowered the barrier to entry, not only in terms of the required technical skill (since it was not necessary to learn to write... See more