Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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During interviews, I try to create a stillness that helps separate signal from noise, elephants from riders. The easiest way to create conditions of stillness is to talk very little. It also helps to have the candidate you’re trying to see clearly ask you questions. Questions have very high signal value compared to most anything else you can get... See more
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
Metaphors We Compute By
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Being a great manager is easy.
All you have to do is be vulnerable but unflappable, care about people but put the business first, balance competing interests of your team and your boss, obsess over numbers but be a great storyteller, empower your team but give clear direction…
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Do you think Shakespeare was gritting his teeth and diligently
trying to write Great Literature? Of course not. He was having
fun. That's why he's so good.
trying to write Great Literature? Of course not. He was having
fun. That's why he's so good.
paulgraham.com • What You'll Wish You'd Known
Curiosity seems to be more individual than fastidiousness about truth or resistance to being told what to think. To the degree people have the latter two, they're usually pretty general, whereas different people can be curious about very different things. So perhaps curiosity is the compass here. Perhaps, if your goal is to discover novel ideas,... See more
Paul Graham • How to Think for Yourself
In the early 1900s, psychoanalytic theorists speculated that people became bored out of unfulfilled unconscious desire. Midcentury existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, by contrast, saw boredom as a fundamental philosophical crisis, what Schopenhauer once termed "the feeling of the emptiness of life."