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1:56:32 – writing as thinking and re-writing as re-thinking

“These reductionist metrics effectively treat humans as though they were freight, they turned transport into a logistics problem which free of psychology” – Rory Sutherland

This is the thing many tech investors I’ve spoken with don’t get about content: they think of it as more like a variable cost than it really is. They think content businesses are about churning out an enormous volume of material, so if you want to grow you have to keep hiring more content creators. But this isn’t how successful content businesses w... See more

The hipster was an information-sorting algorithm: its job was to always have good taste . The hipster listened to bands you’d never heard of. The hipster drank beers brewed by Paraguayan Jesuits in the 1750s. The hipster thought Tarkovsky was for posers, and the only truly great late-Soviet filmmaker was Ali Khamraev. The hipster bought all his toi... See more

When an idea seems simultaneously novel and obvious, it's probably a good one.

memory is central to problem solving and creativity.