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Astasia Myers • Community is the New Moat!
Relationships and
Of course, smartphones, by themselves, don’t force you to stop hanging out in person. But there are several reasons they reduce it. First, they’re a distraction — the rise of smartphones was also the rise of “ phubbing ”, i.e. when people go on their phones instead of paying attention to the people around them. Second, phones provide a behavioral
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All of these prolific geniuses in devotional service to their craft were monsters . Writer Claire Dederer: “[t]he female writers I know yearn to be more monstrous. They say it in off-hand, ha-ha-ha ways: ‘I wish I had a wife.’ What does that mean, really? It means you wish to abandon the tasks of nurturing in order to perform the selfish
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It’s happening in newsletters, where Substack gives writers an easy way to try to become the next Ben Thompson. It’s happening in video games, where Epic Games is building the tools and literally giving them away for free to expand the Total Addressable Market. It’s happening in AI, where OpenAI is giving everyone GPT-3 to build on top of.
Packy McCormick • Shopify and the Hard Thing About Easy Things
We considered what could yield better results. Could we give our translators direct access to our product so that they could edit copy within the application? We could, so we did: building a prototype that allowed in-context editing. At the core, we wanted localization to happen as close to our product development process as possible. We also... See more
Frederik Vollert • Ask an expert: What’s the best way to begin software localization?
Nothing feels better than resonance. Whether you have a billion dollars or are well respected or enlightened, you are still seeking resonance. Even the Buddha was seeking resonance. Why else would he share his teachings with others?
Shreyas Hariharan • The Goal is Resonance | Shreyas Hariharan
People will meet with you when you have proof of work Busy people will take your meeting when you have something important or valuable. But you have to come with a proper calling card. It should be: “Here’s what I’ve done. Here’s what I can show you. Let’s meet if this is useful to you, and I’ll be respectful of your time.”