James Stevens
@redwolfwhite
Well red and well read.
Came for the creativity. Stayed for the community.
James Stevens
How the Sounds of a Calculator Ended Up on Sublime's Website
Alex Dobrenko`sublimeinternet.substack.com
that kind of luxe just ain't for us; we crave a different kind of buzz and A Design For Life.
Sublime is as Sublime does.
The divide between performance anxiety and a feeling of
frictionless ease swings on the consumer’s response to
information. It sucks to be broke, but it sucks even more to
receive daily low balance notifications. We know our
preferences are being calculated and used to predict our
next moves, but we still don’t feel like we can take our hands
off the... See more
frictionless ease swings on the consumer’s response to
information. It sucks to be broke, but it sucks even more to
receive daily low balance notifications. We know our
preferences are being calculated and used to predict our
next moves, but we still don’t feel like we can take our hands
off the... See more
Michael Lewis on how your narrative crafts your character:
If you listen to people, if you just sit around and listen, you’ll find there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves. Some people are always the victim. Some people always get unlucky. Some people are always in the middle of some impossible... See more
we do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.
Edgar H Schein • Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
“If you have a dumb incentive system, you get dumb outcomes.” The late Charlie Munger was endlessly quotable, but this pearl of pith from the famed investor is one that every manager should remember.
There are plenty of dumb examples to choose from. Some are apocryphal: the Soviet nail factory that produced a single, uselessly gigantic nail to meet... See more
There are plenty of dumb examples to choose from. Some are apocryphal: the Soviet nail factory that produced a single, uselessly gigantic nail to meet... See more
Strategy that tells people what to do insults their intelligence. Strategy that tells them nothing wastes their time.