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Perception and attention32
Nathan Spainhour

The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.

The content industry has stumbled into a coordination failure of brobdingnagian proportions. Everyone produces more content because everyone else prod

Funny because it's true22
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You should write something that you yourself would read.” “OK, but don’t you have any promotional tips?” “That was a promotional tip.”

Robots have no taste6
Nathan Spainhour

You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it.

Project Vend: Can Claude Run a Small Shop?

Half of Silicon Valley talks about taste now the way sommelier hobbyists talk about terroir: with enormous confidence, zero productive capacity, and t

Process77
Nathan Spainhour

Put this over your desk: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing mod

The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.

GRIMES: I think that’s the huge privilege of an artist. Nothing can hurt you because every bit of pain you’ve lived allows you to make great things.

Thought provoking74
Nathan Spainhour

The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.

Work49
Nathan Spainhour

Jack Dorsey on identifying the right details: “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

Don’t overthink it12
Nathan Spainhour

Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that

The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.

Life and Betterment7
Nathan Spainhour

Side projects as the key to the good life By Marty Bell • 31 Jul 2025 When I was 13, I created a chat room for teenagers to talk about art and photog

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

Fun9
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Ritual6
Nathan Spainhour

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work. -David Ogilvy

There are those who approach the opportunities of each day like crossing items off a to-do list instead of truly engaging and participating with all o

if there’s some odd way that you particularly enjoy doing things, then you should probably prioritize that over any system that anybody else advises y

Apps, Filters, Plugins3
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Books1
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Riso4
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Sites to revisit6
Nathan Spainhour
Illustrations2
Nathan Spainhour

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Magnificent Original Drawings for The Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit and More | The Unlearner

capitalism1
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Merch1
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