Josh
@jpw
Josh
It’s pretty funny when you see how, being comfortable with being disliked, actually makes you even more likeable. It’s one of the many ways in which life can be really unfair.
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"Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear." — Hannah Arendt
The Patriarchal Labyrinth: A Review of "Heretic" - Sunstone
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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 there, and claim your wins.
Anil Dash (@anildash.com)
Business and software and Challenging thoughts
On Gruber’s “Very insightful and not negative” story about Steve Jobs.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/05/15_years_later_very_insightful_and_not_negative
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 already do, but more so.
1. Become a more terrifying version of yourself.
2. Do what you already do, but more so.
Bluesky
Seriously fun hands-on learning for curious kids of all ages | KiwiCo
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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 happens in a human brain in that moment of crisis. truly insane that we're pushing an entire generation to forget how to think