Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician | The New Yorker
Rivka Galchennewyorker.comThe alchemy of the rewrite
open.substack.com
If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
Everyone I know who's independent-minded is deeply curious, and everyone I know who's conventional-minded isn't. Except, curiously, children. All small children are curious. Perhaps the reason is that even the conventional-minded have to be curious in the beginning, in order to learn what the conventions are. Whereas the independent-minded are the... See more