Nikita Krivonosov
@nikita
Nikita Krivonosov
“The point of books is to combat loneliness” — David Foster Wallace
I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously crea... See more
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously crea... See more
Jeanette Winterson • Why I Adore the Night, by Jeanette Winterson
design manifestos .org
designmanifestos.org
We can't build a sustainable business by chasing every opportunity.
A sustainable business is strategically constrained. Its leaders know what the business is and, more importantly, what it's not.
A sustainable business is strategically constrained. Its leaders know what the business is and, more importantly, what it's not.
Tara McMullin • Why Nachos Aren't on the Menu
Creating online, in a counter-intuitive way, is a way to disconnect with the very-online world we live in and a way to reconnect with yourself.
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
Throughout history, people have risked death for the ability to share their ideas. Now almost everyone has unfettered access to the internet and most people are sitting there and thinking “eh, I’m good.” People will look back at us and wonder what the hell was wrong with us.
From Ezra Klein:
AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that
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Interesting analogy for creating conditions for 10x work:
Limit drag. Reduce interruptions by working in extended periods of focus work.
Maximize thrust. Fill focus time with primarily long-duration tasks.
The reasoning is that the work that is highest impact typically takes a lot of reasoning / requires a lot of implementation detail. Minimizing dist
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