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All human wisdom is contained in these two words: ‘wait’ and ‘hope’!”

don’t live each day like it’s your last. live like you’ll make it to 100. think in centuries.

We’ve replaced time in the field with time on our phones. What we now call experience is the weighted average of our own and the residue of what other

generate 3 alternative mobile UI flows for our onboarding experience, optimized for clarity and low cognitive load.” “simulate how a distracted user

"You are an extremely skilled lacanian analyst with decades of clinical experience and training in coherence therapy. You use a transference-focused p

my current ChatGPT custom prompt -- curious what others are using/doing? Have been slowly iterating over time... -- At the start of a response, creat

Current AI custom prompt: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and

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It takes yesterday’s trends, remixes them with today’s keywords, and spits out tomorrow’s mediocrity. It’s not thinking. It’s rehashing. Recursively,

We must choose the “longest way round” because meaning is neither fast nor viral nor optimized.It’s made. Slowly. Painfully. Honestly.By humans.

But what felt new was the speed and violence with which language now manifests markets. I’d sit in meetings as a single phrase “AI-native vertical Saa

The AI moment sharpens all of this because it changes the scarcity. As is well discussed, the precise selection and careful arrangement of words becom

A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.

cognitive polarization

I don’t know what to say to folks who doubt the usefulness of these tools. There’s a reason companies are going bananas to build out more infrastructu

THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore

And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those

Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron → “hollywood love” hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell → “real love“ —88

the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such e

The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered

TED’S 24 RULES FOR READINGReading shouldn’t be a goal—instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit.It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, someth

true masters feel the answer before they can explain the answer in words.

The future is unknown. It is also unknowable. No amount of rational thought, scenario planning, and optionality maximization can allow you to predict

For decades, technology has required standardized solutions to complex human problems. In order to scale software, you had to build for the average us

1. Embracing ‘Anti-Scale’According to John their maximum audience is capped at 200,000.“If we have 10 million subscribers we've pivoted. Something's g

Communities are not resources to be optimised and they're not user bases to be migrated. They're the accumulated residue of people choosing, over and

When the institutions are optimized to fund the legible thing and the individuals are optimized to build the legible thing, the identity of the founde

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

In times of uncertainty, another way of thinking, working, and living together is possible — and necessary. There may be a tendency to default to fami

Yes, the gardens have fallen into decay and the flowers are gone. We can mourn that loss. Or we can ask: what kind of work will let us grow them again

I came of age in the Napster days, when only fools spent money on anything digital. Early on, we decided that we’d rather pay for the internet with at

One mistake I often used to make at Justin.tv was offering a potpourri of business models (virtual goods, product placement, chat ads, contests, etc..

The problem in media isn’t the business model. The problem is that most of the content sucks.

Ads have ruined company prioritiesIt used to be that we design for the best possible experience. But then “free” came around. Nothing is really free,

Chat is the foundation of civilization. I believe this with all of the seriousness of my being. This is the other realization that took me out of acad

Much has already been written about parasocial relationships, and I am of the mind that they are a logical outcome of the death of God plus late capit

It did not seem like a good idea to me that some of the richest people in the world were no longer rewarding people for having any particular skills,

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If language were sufficient to express human thought, why would we need visual arts, music, dance?

“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This h