Stephen Black

None of them look anything like me, but they are dressed the way I was dressed when I was 2 years old.”

I recently saw a quote from Ben, the CEO of GitHub: “It matters where you get your dopamine. Get your dopamine from clarifying your ideas more than from their visibility.”

I don’t like how my writing has been shaped by Substack in general.

Taste is discernment expressed: informed judgment plus the courage to show it.

here’s a quote that says if a new technology emerges between your teenage years and 35, you adapt. If it emerges after 35, you think it’s horrible and can’t cope. On the other end of that spectrum are kids. This will just be a normal world for them. They’ll probably have tutors and friends that are chatbots. For them, it’ll just be native; just a... See more

“How do you choose those 10 people?” One way is to choose people who are 10 times better than everyone else, who can produce 10 times more, and who will be 10 times more valuable to the business. The other way is to choose people based on whether you enjoy working with them, if they make you better, or if they help you express your voice, taste, or... See more

Why the future belongs to people who are part media, part machine.

This asteroid has a moon.