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like, you know, no reference point to go off of, that’s ego system. That’s “I am the synthesizer; therefore, you consume me and I give purpose to your
I think a lot of kids are in that situation where you know ultimately they're just not being given the codes. They have, they have unlimited curiosity
The structures for learning are disappearing faster than new ones are forming. Remote work has accelerated this breakdown, erasing the in-person mento
The most subversive thing you could build isn't faster note-taking or better brand recognition - it's tools that help people develop their own interna
The kids are joining running clubs, buying “dumb” phones, woodworking, rocking Walkmans, joining supper clubs, etc because their lives have been swall
There’s this funny balance where some writers get way too purist about it and they’re like, I don’t want to have to package my work up for the masses
Let me assure you, as someone who has been publishing books for sixteen years, that no matter how much you think you’ve talked about your book, no mat
Buckets are little homes for the things you want to explore deeper. Maybe you’ll write or draw or build about them one day, but that’s not really the
Are you building a practice or a cathedral? - Yancey Strickler
Algorithms today feel similar — we’re given little ability to choose where we’re going. We’re being fed content, post after post, pushed in directions
people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.
What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.
When you see the world As devoid of something Only you can bring to life You create magic And if you fail, You can still take comfort In knowing you
The most subversive thing you could build isn't faster note-taking or better brand recognition - it's tools that help people develop their own interna
The words of Paul Mazur, a leading Wall Street banker working for Lehman Brothers in 1927, are cited: "We must shift America from a needs- to a desire
stay focused...ignore the rat race...try to build things that are cool. the rest will fall into place
I'm going to talk about "Self-Renewal." One of your most fundamental tasks is the renewal of the organizations you serve, and that usually includes pe
It’s always top-own. It’s really always top-down. If there's a problem with a company culturally or just, a little bit of culture, but like they're a
If you don’t have a slogan, you don’t have a movement
People already have pretty sophisticated understanding of brands already, and brand isn't underestimated. It's just that you really have to stress tes
Instead of asking people for advice and looking for the average of all the advice you get, you should probably be taking bigger, bolder bets.If the av
“Strategy is the art and science of moving into a position of advantage in an adversarial environment”
Today’s software is far from personal. Unbundling the app is just one important step; we must also invent new interactions around a new set of core pr
Optimism is unfashionable today, particularly among intellectuals. Everyone makes fun of it. Someone said "Pessimists got that way by financing optimi
The best design work rarely starts with order. It starts with questions, with play, with a lot of mess. We need tools that make room for that. Because
Instead of asking people for advice and looking for the average of all the advice you get, you should probably be taking bigger, bolder bets.If the av
"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your li
This situation, where more data is the goal, means there is great collection software and terrible decision making software. We are told to star, favo
Vega Power Devices Photovoltaic Module Product Sheet
“According to the Tiqqun collective, we have become the innocuous, pliable inhabitants of global urban societies.7 Even in the absence of any direct c
Truth Sandwich (George Lakeoff, 2018?): trying to refute an idea can spread it, because your audience is probably not the audience that was first expo
our quantitative understanding of elasticity is shortterm we can estimate what a price reduction will do this week in this quarter but we cannot estim
Repetition helps persuade people that something is correct, a phenomenon known as the illusory truth effect.
This desire, eyes wide and knowing, this is at the core of all our pursuits. It was there during the renaissance, the enlightenment, and it is ever pr
It’s any time someone hesitates to make the thing they desperately want to make because they succumb to the avoidable things that kill creativity. The
I encourage the viewer to slow down, and interact, and don’t worry that we might lose them if the information they think they want isn’t immediately p
But time and scale and riches and glories later. We now see what I generally call “meta-startups” Their only goal is playing the game. They have no
In the post-Snapchat, pre-Tiktok breakout… every single consumer app company tried to reproduce the Snap magic. At the same time, every investor was b
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with
TLDR: Silicon Valley has been de-mystified, but you’re asking “where’s the magic?” // One thing I’ve been meditating on in Tokyo is “de-mystificatio
the goal of life is to be excited to go to work and excited to go home