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Rob and I had to face the truth: Matter is a great product—3x App of the Day, with many thousands of passionate users—but it isn’t the next Duolingo.
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
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
What’s more, another study establishes that knowing that their parents value kindness above achievement protects kids’ well-being.
Children who feel valued in this way, and who believe that what they do adds value, generally come to understand that they matter. And a sense of matt
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
Three Reasons to Be a Parent
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
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
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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
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
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
