Jake

@jake

writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.

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"If by any chance you are wondering how to make yourself smarter, learn how to appreciate almost everybody, and keep on cultivating that skill."

— Tyler Cowen

Before an interview, I sometimes re-read this great passage from Philip Roth’s American Pastoral :

You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you’re anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you’re with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all

Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?

Management and high performance

In Praise of Idleness

Bertrand Russell harpers.org

Great reading

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Visual inspiration

Visual inspiration

Material artifacts have an ability to enroll and align different tribes in a way that text doesn’t. The goal is to make “boundary objects” - artifacts that self-translate for all kinds of different tribes, and allow these actors to communicate with one another, even when they’re speaking different languages.

Think of the magical role of self-evident... See more