Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
Write a hundred pieces. Each time take one thing and make it better: a better title, better structure, better ending, better descriptions, better dialogue. Just one thing. It adds up," and "Don’t think too much about how it’s supposed to be done, what others are doing, or what the conventions demand. Just try to amuse yourself.
intellectually honest and economically rational but that alone is not enough there are many companies that do the right thing when their backs are against the wall the anointed few are there because they have chosen to outthink their competition and allocate Capital over many years with discipline to reinforce their firm's competitive
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
when people put energy into you, attune to it, and give them harmonious energy back
The key point to understand about Bloomberg is that it’s both a software product and a social network. The software product determined who would join the network, but the network is what keeps users there. It’s like a multiplayer video game, or Harvard: Sure, the quests and campus are useful, but people keep showing up because of the friends
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“communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do, and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.”
Subpixel Space • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
• Research culminates in some output . Research isn’t just about collecting references and evidence and the ideas of other people. It isn’t even about synthesizing them in an interesting way. Research is about advancing new arguments and ideas in some form—typically a conference presentation, paper, book, etc.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Embrace naivety / Talk at CSM split this up
This is also when the work is the most fun. How do you get young people to embrace naivety? Or how do I learn how to write better copy for websites? When the question becomes a box?
Research Incumbency Rule: “Once an article is published in some approved venue, it is taken as truth. Criticisms which would absolutely derail a submission in pre-publication review can be brushed aside if they are presented after publication. This is what you call ‘the burden of proof on critics.'”
Sean • Knowing Things Is Hard
"The barnacle" the author explained "is confronted with an existential decision about where it's going to live. Once it decides.. . it spends the rest of its life with its head cemented to a rock.." End of quote. For a good many of us, it comes to that.
We've all seen men and women, even ones in fortunate circumstances with responsible positions who
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