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from Ideas I'm Thinking About by Jonathan Borichevskiy
- Newspaper reporters call this a “morgue file”—I like that name even better. Your morgue file is where you keep the dead things that you’ll later reanimate in your work.
from Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
- There’s nothing wrong with a fondness for data. The trouble begins when you begin to favor bad arguments that involve data over good arguments that don’t, or insist that metrics be introduced in realms where data can’t realistically be the foundation of a good argument.
from Be Good-Argument-Driven, Not Data-Driven by Richard Marmorstein
If you can bring someone belonging, connection, peace of mind, status, or one of the other most desired emotions, you’ve done something worthwhile. The thing you sell is simply a road to achieve those emotions, and we let everyone down when we focus on the tactics, not the outcomes. Who’s it for and what’s it for are the two questions that guide a
... See morefrom This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To… by Seth Godin
- At the end of the day, everyone writing on the internet is still in the business of attracting eyeballs. Subscriptions make this relationship a little more diffuse, but they end up in the same place: what generates money is what draws attention. And individuals, unbound by institutional restraints and implicitly rewarded for sensationalism, are at ... See more
from The Medium pivot is the message by Mark Stenberg
- In my experience so far with the crypto world, a lot of the technical designs are built around the pure financial incentives. And there is a robust culture, around these technologies, otherwise they probably wouldn’t be used by anyone. But they’re really off-chain. And as much as possible, these systems are often designed to get people using these ... See more
from Pacenotes: Exit to Community and Personal Tokens with Nathan Schneider by Wong Joon Ian
- -Application: Emergent Ventures’ application is laser focused on the quality of the applicant’s ideas, and boils out the noise of credentials, references, and test scores.
from Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world by kulesa.substack.com
- The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
from The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham
- The idea of having this giant graph where all your data is hyperlinked is cute, but in practice, it’s completely unnecessary. Things live in separate apps just fine. How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox?
from Unbundling Tools for Thought by Fernando Borretti
the things that make you go “whoa” should not live alongside your to-do list or your kids health insurance info