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I have sat through enough screenings and Q+A’s for friends who’ve made movies to now identify a secret weapon that no amount of money or production pa

Yet when you have created a simulation-like environment that is immune to reality, this is what happens. You refuse to believe what everyone else can

When the institutions are optimized to fund the legible thing and the individuals are optimized to build the legible thing, the identity of the founde

If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun

Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing

A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu

What people think are winning backgrounds: - Ivy League grad - good grades - after school activities Actual winning backgrounds: - compet

How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra) Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you tak

What is “talent?” Well, I suppose it’s the ability to do that which is excellent (that which astounds, amazes, and so on). It’s a bit circular, real

The stages of CEO & how to evolve as your company does:

People who don’t take themselves too seriously. They have to be able to laugh at themselves to succeed. What to look for: This is usually very easy to

The #1 thing I look for when hiring people is FIO. "Figure It Out" You can get pretty damn far just by being: - Resourceful - Reliable - Results or

@mckaywrigley I have a bunch of questions I ask. What would you build for yourself? What did previous companies you've worked for need? What are you a

THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore

And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those

Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron → “hollywood love” hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell → “real love“ —88

For what it’s worth, in raising our own kids we created an effective, balanced, common-sense approach based not on rules but on three principles. Trea

Whenever someone tells me they're expecting their first baby and they're nervous, I tell them the following: 'Oh my goodness, that's wonderful. I am s

In a lot of ways people can be split into aimless and not-aimless like this. I think humans are at their best when they are reaching towards something

from Ashley Zhang: the longer I spent seeking answers on how to flourish, the more I recognized that the challenges we face are both systemic and p

Human scale institutions strive for optimum scale. Not mega scale. The point at which maximum quality can be attained. Their purpose is not to maximiz

There are a lot of organizational structures and lived practices embedded in our bodies that we just enact by default. But through explicit facilitati

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory

Lots of theories have been tried, and lots of them have been given up because of something that looks like contradictory evidence. But the evidence mi

If you have a theory that’s been working pretty well for a while — it made good predictions, it solved real problems, it explained a lot of mysteries

Real explanations will sometimes sound weird, crazy, or too complicated because reality itself is often weird, crazy, or too complicated. It’s unfortu

Things change as contradictory evidence piles up, but even then, it doesn’t mean you should scrap the theory you started out with. Everyone back in th

surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur

Most people’s mental models of energy are flawed: they think there’s a ‘tank’ of energy that gets depleted as you spend it. This may be roughly true f

If you have a theory that’s been working pretty well for a while — it made good predictions, it solved real problems, it explained a lot of mysteries

Real explanations will sometimes sound weird, crazy, or too complicated because reality itself is often weird, crazy, or too complicated. It’s unfortu

Things change as contradictory evidence piles up, but even then, it doesn’t mean you should scrap the theory you started out with. Everyone back in th

And there’s a lot of positive evidence. It’s not that there’s some metaphysical concept of beauty that rules the world — beauty is a human experience.

It is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individu

Aesthetics are your problem and mine. Nobody else’s. The fact of the matter is I want everything we do, that I do personally, that our office does, to

Ever tried uncollapsing a wavefunction?

Could We Ever Really Build a Dyson Sphere? This megastructure for gathering solar energy would fill any conceivable future energy desires. But can it