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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur
Distractions divert you from your goals, while opportunities align with and propel you toward them. For example, Americans spend an average of 11 hour
re: many genAI apps can do 'anything and everything' i used to tell this funny story to a lot of consumer founders: when one-shot TTS first started
A lot of companies don’t make it because in the process of trying to get many things right, they don’t get anything right.Why are they in such a hurry
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, a
That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe
5/ You try to figure things out rather than feel through them How do you drop a hot frying pan? You feel it, and you will let go. All your bad hab
Remember in the before times how on hard days you could grab your work bestie and go have lunch blocks away from whatever was bothering you?
Like many people I thought Covid, with its stopped clock and blunt force, would bring a major reckoning. A reckoning with small things, like what we w
Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon
The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo
What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass
Memetic premium is a phenomenon in which people attribute higher monetary value to an idea because they: 1. See other people value an idea as well
These are two very different modes of cultural interaction. Charli’s approach invites participation: the memes exist for remixing, the portrayed scene
Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imi
We should be skeptical of both utopian and dystopian technology predictions. New tools will amplify both our virtues and our vices, just like every pr
We see something that works, and then we understand it “We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper
In a digitally decentralized world where generative AI can lower the barriers of creation even farther than ever before, and bots can be trained under
When we spoke with Ruby Justice Thelot, cyber-ethnographer and adjunct professor of design and media theory at NYU, he referenced his now-published pi
Interface > Data > Models While media still focuses on the “next best model” rat race, increasingly believe that the “interface” and “data” layers wi
App layer is where most of the value is. Nothing has changed. Humans like a well designed focused UX that deeply solves a problem as a first class cit
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, believes this is the primary way AI companies will differentiate their products. It all comes down to personalit
I was reading an article about the state of SaaS recently, and came across this line:The data moat surrounding incumbent SaaS / systems of record is l
Your competitive advantage is not that your designs are secret, but that you have a strong relationship with your community of customers.
“At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted... It's exceptionally rare for startups to
Start in the future and work backward
If you pay attention, you’ll see that today’s winning brands understand the customer’s story is the only one that matters. Your most important job as
Solving a problem for your user is great, but easing their cognitive dissonance can have a much greater emotional impact. There is likely something th
The Questions Before the Questions
If we give them the room to breathe, creative works can live multiple lives. The works will stay online for years, decades even. It will make someone
What they don’t see, and what we continue to experience, is that while collaborating can be hard, it’s also a more rewarding, fruitful, and uplifting
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!
Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide
A trend is a fad whose demand is not satisfied. A fad is a trend whose demand is satisfied too quickly. The lesson? If you experience success, do not
This is silly simplified but people who work in “Brand” are typically valued for their taste and ability to forecast and predict trends. They see the
One of the surprising and counter-cultural truths about modern-day marketing, which I suspect drives many efficiency-minded people practically insane,
teams tend to underestimate the gravity created by shipping their first product. Once you share something with customers, you naturally start to think
If you launch and no one notices, launch again. We launched 3 times.
our job is also to understand what people think they want and then translate the value of Slack into their terms.
That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe
Traumatisation is most usually presented as anunassailable, concrete fact, and this is where I need to be respectful. If someone brings a firmconvicti
when the trauma label has been appliedby outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place andour culture
The five principles of prompting I developed work equally well as management techniques for humans: Give direction. Describe the desired style in de
People who are good at solving poorly defined problems don't get the same kind of kudos. They don’t get any special titles or clubs. There is no test
2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.
And I realised that if you ever hear someone explaining things in terms of a long list of caveats, the odds are good that you’re looking at tacit know
Tacit knowledge is knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone.Think about riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is impossible to teach through
A democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist. All kinds of resources
Some assume that a fundamental property of the internet is that it is globally connected, but countries, such as Iran and China, who have built their
It’s about the same trap in professional life: doing the thing for years, getting more experienced, and staying stuck at the same level. You can work
I don't know if I'm ever going to get rich doing this but I am going to keep making things that I want to exist, in a way that seems fun and to a leve
What we see as an agency in our work with creatorsWe work with a lot of creators around the world for different brands, markets and niches and the one
So who survives?First, creators who publish citable work. Newsletter writers who go deep on one thing. Analysts who publish original data. Technical w
The subscription model means content providers are paid regularly no matter the quality and quantity of the product. Makes sense – being paid on a reg
What tradition or practice from another culture or era do you think we should widely adopt?I wish patronage were widely adopted as an explicit social
Media and Machines.
What people think are winning backgrounds: - Ivy League grad - good grades - after school activities Actual winning backgrounds: - compet
How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra) Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you tak
What is “talent?” Well, I suppose it’s the ability to do that which is excellent (that which astounds, amazes, and so on). It’s a bit circular, real