Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
The opposite of memory isn’t forgetting, it’s never having paid attention at all.
Our brains have evolved to detect patterns and attribute significance to events that are entirely random, imagining signal where there is mostly noise. This tendency is probably hypertrophied in writers, who are constantly seeing the world in terms of narrative. In fact, for a while, encountering this very sentiment in books became yet another
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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
he says there's a blind spot as the overwhelming mythology methodology for research in economics
has been to take observations over a short period time as if cause and effect sit on top
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
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 benchmarking to the Snap story. This motion we generally describe as “pattern matching”. It allows capital to move without too much critique (up or down the ladder), but it’s come at the cost of a lack... See more
Mimetic Hauntology
having the idea is all the proof you need that you are ready to make it.
‘Focus on the ones that love you; don’t let the haters drive your agenda.
Distinction Rebellion
ick says if it's a single best thought you have ever had in your life it needs to dominate everything because you're not going to get many insights like that and
if it's your single best Insight your single best idea then obviously it's what you should spending all your time on