Pritesh

In every waking moment, your brain uses past experience to guide your present sensations.

All the energy we spend trying to fix what’s broken comes at the expense of making what already works unstoppable.

One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.

Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.

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Everyone knows what works. Few do it after it stops being exciting.

Most problems are solvable. But that doesn’t mean the solution will look like you hope it will; there will be trade offs.

Nobody sets out planning to move slowly, waste time on bad ideas, and test nothing.

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... See more

The single most important job of a leader — even if they’re mediocre at everything else — is to make decisions, and to know when and where those decisions need to be made.