Pritesh
- It's just been following the breadcrumbs of life that get strewn on the road along the way.
from Letter #134: Michael Moritz and Robert Lacher (2023) by KG
- A vision springs, not from a careful understanding of a context, but from a fantasy: if you could just make it into another context your problems will go away.
from Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process by Henrik Karlsson
- Going for a walk outside doesn’t do enough for touch as it does for sight, smell, sound, getting exercise and clearing your mind.
from The Lost Sense
- I should say too that precision requires attending to necessary detail, not adhering mindlessly to it. This requires both understanding what detail is necessary, and why.
from Iteration X - Vaughn Tan cooks Shizuo Tsuji by Vaughn Tan
- KTLO level is not the same as maintenance level. Maintenance level investments keep a thing functional at the current level of functional capacity. KTLO activities can sink lower, to hibernation levels of metabolism.
from Worlds in Waiting by Venkatesh Rao
- KTLO is both a set of practices (identifying life-critical processes that constitute the life of a thing and devoting scarce resources to them first) and an interesting sort of goal that says something about your values.
from Worlds in Waiting by Venkatesh Rao
If you want to live an asymmetric life: Do hard things. Do your thing. Do it for decades. Write your story. ”
from How to Live an Asymmetric Life by Graham Weaver
- Amateurs talk strategy or tactics. Professionals talk logistics.
from The fraud supply chain
- Trust, though, is an immensely socially useful technology. Human civilization has a fundamental limitation in that all humans can be trivially killed while sleeping. Huge portions of society’s efforts go toward establishing conditions where this trivial vulnerability virtually never gets exploited. God has, reportedly, closed all bug reports claimi... See more
from The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero