Leo Nasskau
- “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
— André Gide, 1925from Tweet by Dylano | Essayful
- I remember 2015 or so, Jeff Bezos came on stage and said that this sort of way of doing grocery shopping doesn't seem like it's the right solution. And the whole team was like, shit, Jeff Bezos saying this. But actually, in our model, the marketplace model was superior to our first-party fully integrated model for various reasons. And our first pri... See more
from Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart by Elad Gil
Instacart CEO on first first principles thinking
- When institutions become powerful and entrenched, the logic of state interest begins to override the more fundamental interests of continuity. The qualities which brought the state into being may ultimately conflict with and upset its stability and end up suppressed. The militant hero culture of the old patrician families gave Rome its empire, but ... See more
from New Article: You Won’t Survive As Human Capital by Palladium Editors
Statesmanship and Roman Empire
thought the sum of the essay was lower than its best claims, like this claim
- This is why successful companies still pursuing breakthroughs are always led by live players, often the founders.
Only Mark Zuckerberg could have changed Facebook's name and decided it was now a virtual reality hardware company.from Tweet by Bismarck Analysis
- Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to pass the Locomotive Act, whose most notable feature was an absurd requirement that a man walk in front of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag and blowing a horn. It stunted the U.K. automobile... See more
from Towards guardrails, not guidelines: a policy framework for powerful AI systems by Matt Boulos
Progress Studies and
Seed Checks
- With certain projects, we might pull up specific data or metrics to see if the data gives us any more insights, but it’s not the way we make decisions. We don’t do A/B tests. We validate ideas and assumptions that are driven by taste and opinions, rather than the other way around where tests drive decisions. There is no specific engagement or other... See more
from How Linear Builds Product by Lenny Rachitsky
- Facebook makes me feel the way I feel when I’m in a hospital.
from The Bitter End of "Content" by Freddie deBoer
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