Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
We need to sort of keep moving. Um, I think that's integral to how we kind of preserve a good balance of optimism, uh, in the human consciousness.
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
When research is your leisure activity, you’ll end up making connections between your existing interests and new ideas or topics. Everything gets pulled into the orbit of your intellectual curiosity. You can go deeper and deeper into a narrow topic, one that seems fascinatingly trivial and end up learning about the big topics: gender, culture,
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questions are the guide to life
It’s why fashion writers end up writing about the history of gender identity (through writing about masculine/feminine clothing) and cross-cultural exchange (through writing about cultural appropriation and styles borrowed from other times and places) and historical trade networks (through writing about where textiles come from).
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Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
"spend all your time on your single best idea" and
I think this also why the Apple culture of secret works so well. On your most important values there can be no second chances. If I let you do it this once, then you'll do it again
Very often, people would tell me they had forgotten that Twemex wasn’t part of Twitter itself. I think this also points to the benefits for users: would you rather have to learn a whole new interface, or just have your existing one seamlessly improved?
For your next side project, make a browser extension
find distribution, and build on top of it
such a lovely thought
The trick is to act immediately on the idea and not push it back or just write it down - Sam Peitz
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 habit towards like risk aversion or whatever, that's a C-suite problem. That comes from leadership. It doesn't come from middle management or from the employees. So that's where if you need to fix it,
A contractor said something during this project which I thought was both compassionate and the sign that he was a skilled professional, and I thought I’d share:
Scene: My mother, who has some mobility challenges, is sketching out what she wants in her kitchen. He listens.
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