Jake
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writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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Another way to increase your curiosity is to indulge it, by investigating things you're interested in. Curiosity is unlike most other appetites in this respect: indulging it tends to increase rather than to sate it. Questions lead to more questions.
Paul Graham • How to Think for Yourself
What is the highest-growth environment you’ve ever been in? What made it that way?
(growth interpreted broadly: professional, in hobbies, interpersonal, etc)
Andy Matuschakx.comYou should find the candidate confusing at times. If you first see their dysfunction, you should know you have yet to find their genius, and vice versa.
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
- Can we re-frame this in terms of the customer’s problem?
- What’s the soonest we could get this done?
- What would you need to get this done tomorrow instead of next week?
- What would we need to do to get twice as many customers? Ten times as many customers?
- How does this relate to our goal? Is this the most important thing we can do for our goal?
- What’s
Sam Gerstenzang • Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
When judging people for leadership positions, or for jobs that require strongly synthetic abilities, you should consider how well they are capable of generating an understanding of context across a broad range of domains, including ex nihilo, so to speak.
Tyler Cowen • “Context is that which is scarce”
