Laurence Chen
@laurencec
Generalist
Laurence Chen
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Generalists have the advantage of interdisciplinary knowledge, which fosters creativity and a firmer understanding of how the world works. They have a better overall perspective and can generally perform second-order thinking in a wider range of situations than the specialist can.
Shane Parrish • The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled
Generalists thrive in early stage companies where it’s small and people are nimble. There’s much more opportunity for the generalist. –Britt Gage
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
... See morePhil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
The tweet that can be retweeted is not the eternal kernel. Lather, rinse, retweet. This too is panicky. [Twitter tagline, Laurence Chen]
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. – Seneca
there’s this struggle in my head. Is the world ending, or is it a nice day and I’m getting coffee? Obviously, it’s not a binary thing, but living this way is sometimes brain-scrambling. It’s not like the constant doom and gloom of Twitter was making me a better climate activist. Instead I’d be paralyzed. Twitter incentivizes you to live in this... See more
Charlie Warzel • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Yes. Regrettably, it’s also how it’s used; how one filters signal from the taxing noise. Twitter has been positive for a few, much more negative for many more. But a few figured out the compounding formula.
