Joseph
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Joseph
Present. They understand the business. This doesn’t work if you come from management consulting, and now you’re a general manager who doesn’t really know the domain. That wouldn’t work as well.
Nilay Patel • Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on What ‘Founder Mode’ Really Means - The Verge
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
\Vhat is different is the way they use and experience time. For the Tiv, time is like a capsule. There is a time for visit-ing, for cooking, or for working; and when one is in one of these times, one does not shift to another.
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
What we lack in innovation is definitely not capital, but a lack of confidence and knowledge of how to organize high-density talent for effective innovation.
Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race
“And I think it was memory that saved us. You see, we have already known that
Adam Nossiter • ‘Memory Saved Us’: How France Blocked the Far Right
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed.
AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle
When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia. The question isn't just one of authentication and accountability, though those are important, but some... See more
DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism | Edge.org
Jaron Lanier
Clocks are mechanical media that transform tasks and create new work and wealth by accelerating the pace of human association. By coordinating and accelerating human meetings and goings-on, clocks increase the sheer quantity of human exchange.
Marshall McLuhan, 1961.