Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
Be willful
A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever... See more
A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever... See more
Sam Altman • How to Be Successful
You'll hear it again and again, the easiest way to empathize with your users is to be the canonical user yourself. I tend to subscribe to this idea, which is unfortunate because it means I have hundreds of apps installed on my phone at any point in time, just trying to keep up with the product zeitgeist.
Remains of the Day • Status as a Service
More companies should do this – it's self-aware and useful signal. https://t.co/ZCqJArJp5x
This situation, where more data is the goal, means there is great collection software and terrible decision making software. We are told to star, favorite, and bookmark everything. Yet, like real life hoarders, we cannot say what exactly we collected or why. Nor can we find any of it. How many times have you spent an hour trying to find that one... See more
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
When we pursue optionality, we avoid bold decisions. Like anything meaningful, venturing into the unknown is an act of faith. It demands responsibility. You‘ll have to take a stand, trust your decision, and ignore the taunts of outside dissent. But a life without conviction is a life controlled by the futile winds of fashion. Or worse, the hollow... See more
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
On freedom / i wish i had more time and Why dont we just do it?
Feels infinitely connected to the quote “the magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding”
What ChatGPT represented wasn't a technological breakthrough but an interface revolution—making AI accessible through natural language conversation, all while operating an infrastructure able to sustain the resulting workload and to keep the user experience smooth. This mirrors how the web browser, particularly Mosaic and later Netscape, didn't
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The Death of the Junior Developer
sourcegraph.com
However, until I got into my 30s, my mindset was that there were all sorts of other wonderful things going on. I'd love to be polymathic; I was reading about the latest in many different sciences, but I was going to focus on Microsoft. You know, so for my 20s, I was monomaniacal. I did not read broadly. I definitely intimidated my competitors. My
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