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- This point rings true to us. That’s why, as we face growing pressure to censor content published on Substack that to some seems dubious or objectionable, our answer remains the same: we make decisions based on principles not PR, we will defend free expression, and we will stick to our hands-off approach to content moderation. While we have content ... See more
from Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse. by Chris Best
- Golden Mean:
Good character is not about maximizing virtues but moderating them: to be sensitive without being fragile, confident without being cocky, steadfast without being stubborn, driven without being reckless, focused without being obsessed.
from 40 Mind-Expanding Concepts by Gurwinder
- US advertising has shrunk by a third as a share of GDP. This is some combination of internet advertising being vastly cheaper and vastly more efficient on one hand, and on the other a lot of recategorisation. If a car dealer used to buy a 20 page ad insert in their local paper, but now pays for one Google search ad (and how many people bid against ... See more
from TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising — Benedict Evans by Benedict Evans
- surrender to the cringe
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?It's all going to flicker out at some point with everything else.
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now t... See morefrom Year of doing the damn thing by Cissy Hu
- A useful interview question (also for yourself): “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
from Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
- What possibilities for action does this technology present? Is it good that these actions are now possible?
from 41 Questions For The Technologies We Use, and That Use Us by Ezra Klein
- To get better endorsements, we have to make them costly. They need to cost time, money, or status. LinkedIn endorsements are intended to cost status, but compared to an effective status requiring endorsement — such as an email intro — LinkedIn endorsements hardly draw down your status capital at all.
from Costly signals of skill by Joey DeBruin
In any complex effort, communicating a well-articulated vision for what you’re trying to do is the starting point for figuring out how to do it.
from Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda
When one holds a dream independent of the environment, that’s greatness. Coming up, we’ll see that overcoming the environment is inextricably linked with overcoming the body and time. In Gandhi’s case, he was not swayed by what was happening in his outer world (environment), he didn’t worry about how he felt and what would happen to him (body), an
... See morefrom Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Joe Dispenza