Jiro dreams of sushi. Reminds me of “the mundanity of excellence”
The reason I'm so obsessed with just studying people that got to the top of their profession is because one third of your life is going to be spent working. Half of your conscious life, half of the time you're not asleep, is going to be spent working. For a certain personality type, to not Excel at that, not to be really good at that means that... See more
"It is a fact of life that marketplaces have to commoditize the workers and inventory to a certain extent in order to function as a marketplace, to make it easier for consumers to search, reduce cost of search. Everybody on substack is commoditized." - Li jin observes
Social media is designed to cycle through content rather than encouraging people to sit with it, to understand it at a deeper level. New content is the fuel on which these platforms run.
The text renaissance is an actual renaissance. It’s a story of history-inspired renewal in a very fundamental way: exciting recent developments are due in part to a new generation of young product visionaries circling back to the early history of digital text, rediscovering old, abandoned ideas, and reimagining the bleeding edge in terms of the... See more