Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
paulgraham.com • What You'll Wish You'd Known
What you don’t want to happen is unsustainable stress, or for people to not share failure or tell you when you’re wrong. So you need to actively fight this as the leader by: a) asking for dissent (“does everyone agree this is the right path? Does anyone disagree”? and letting a silence hang until someone speaks) b) reward debate.
Sam Gerstenzang • Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
I like asking up-front, “So what criteria would you use if you were the one hiring someone for this role?”
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
“I know that talent doesn’t feel like you’re amazing. It feels like the difficulties that trouble others are mysteriously absent in your case. Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.” Sasha Chapin
A recent study found that e-bike riders, on average, get more exercise than riders of traditional (acoustic?) bicycles.
How can that be?
By amplifying the rider’s effort, the e-bike takes its rider further, faster. The rider who goes further, faster ultimately rides more than their unassisted counterpart. Their heart, lungs, and muscles grow stronger... See more
How can that be?
By amplifying the rider’s effort, the e-bike takes its rider further, faster. The rider who goes further, faster ultimately rides more than their unassisted counterpart. Their heart, lungs, and muscles grow stronger... See more
The weird thing is that the word “leader” itself is cliché and boring, but when you come across somebody who actually is a real leader, that person isn’t cliché or boring at all; in fact he’s sort of the opposite of cliché and boring.... See more
Obviously, a real leader isn’t just somebody who has ideas you agree with, nor is it just somebody you happen to