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If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Twitter minus the graph and with the same clunky onboarding process seem destined for failure). The new For You feed gives us a partial taste of what that might look like, and it's not pretty.

Narrative leverage is not just an advantage on the cost of financial capital. And not just a PE ratio with the financial markets. It exists in the leverage with all stakeholders both external and internal. It’s what makes prospective employees excited to apply and work for your company—despite all the tech companies fighting for talent. It’s what... See more

It's a surprising and unfortunate fact that the majority of the world's research, mostly conducted with public funding, is kept behind paywalls run by a tiny number of publishing corporations. But perhaps it doesn't have to be this way.

Self-confidence isn't always good and self-doubt isn't always bad. The goal is self-awareness, which at its peak generates the appropriate amount of both feelings.

"Banking is necessary," Bill Gates once said, "banks are not."

These things tend to be generational; they’re reactionary; and they’re usually organized around a really compelling villain. Because we always seem to react against the unintended consequences, excesses, and blind spots of the previous generation, the zeitgeist is constantly changing. That means there’s always going to be an opening for innovators... See more

That's one part of what I'm aiming at with soul-making productivity. I want a way of stoking the fire, and not just that — a way of devoting myself to the fire, of courting it and nurturing it, and of teaching it how to work with me, how to help along this project we're engaged in together, this effort to take an idea from the ether and sculpt some... See more