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Leaving consensus reality9
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This is a crucial point: conspiracy culture does not challenge the hyper-individualism that is at the heart of so many crises reaching their breaking

I think there are legitimate use cases for these tools (think automation) but the one thing they cannot and will never be able to do is replace what h

Business and software5
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The less time you spend thinking about or reading about or reacting to or writing about what anyone else is doing, the more time and positive energy y

Marketers face a choice every day: hustle for new people or serve the ones who care. Activation is much more productive than persuasion.

a point that I try to emphasize for independent creators or makers: humility, generally, does *not* pay. It's a trap. You have to put your name out th

“I know this” is a life on pause. “I don’t know this” is where the future lies.

Challenging thoughts4
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One of my biggest mental breakthroughs was when I changed my mindset from "This system is stupid and I'm going to spend all my energy fighting it."

Here’s the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose yourself to those things, especially in the constant w

a point that I try to emphasize for independent creators or makers: humility, generally, does *not* pay. It's a trap. You have to put your name out th

How to live8
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I don't make resolutions, ever since I discovered the two perfect ones years ago: 1. Become a more terrifying version of yourself. 2. Do what you al

Our lives don’t have to become others’ cheap food for consumption.

In that earlier era, when we still drank from garden hoses, losing a job sucked, but it mostly didn’t take your community with it. In this new era, lo

The less time you spend thinking about or reading about or reacting to or writing about what anyone else is doing, the more time and positive energy y

Ye olde Internet5
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Artificial intelligence1
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I think there are legitimate use cases for these tools (think automation) but the one thing they cannot and will never be able to do is replace what h

Joy1
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Merry Christmas Eve. While preparing for holiday festivities yesterday I listened to over 100 recordings of my favorite traditional Christmas carol:

Damn good writing2
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Finding stuff on the internet1
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Anna’s Archive

Fooooood1
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Kids and family2
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Dont force your kid to blindly adhere to your rules, if they learn to blindly follow you they will not be able to make rational decisions for themselv

wishlist0
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Tech business and marketing3
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DevRel has always been a role that defies simple definition. It’s not marketing, but it overlaps with marketing. It’s not sales, but it supports sales

In a PLG model, the product sells itself through intuitive design, freemium tiers, and frictionless onboarding. Developers don’t need a community advo

What’s unique about product-led communities is that they orient around a product or service that helps people achieve a valuable future outcome. These

Stuff to bring up at a dinner party1
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björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw