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I have a theory about nostalgia : It happens because the best survival strategy in an uncertain world is to overworry. When you look back, you forget about all the things you worried about that never came true. So life appears better in the past because in hindsight there wasn’t as much to worry about as you were actually worrying about at the... See more

In ‘How Movies Were Edited 60 Years Ago,’ an editor manually cut film splicing, taping, and rewinding at a near biblical pace. Each move carried significance since fixing mistakes was time consuming.

Watching that, I envied the slow process. It’s the opposite of my current approach > revisions layered endlessly, endless undos, nothing ever... See more

One thing I have been thinking about since I gave birth is the range of spiritual qualities that are implicit in physical pain — the way it enforces a sort of presence that melts down the world around you. And the irony of how its sibling sensation, emotional pain, persuades (at least in my experience) just the opposite: an evacuation from the... See more

Anjan’s favorite analogy for the startup journey, the "penny pusher" arcade game. This is what he said:

A lot of the time, the ‘effect’ is not clear from the ‘cause’ of your work. But slowly under the surface it’s building.

And then one day, boom, it breaks through.

(In the game, you win when the pennies finally fall over the edge, and the feeling... See more

1. Embracing ‘Anti-Scale’

According to John their maximum audience is capped at 200,000.

“If we have 10 million subscribers we've pivoted. Something's gone wrong and we're not niche enough. The dopamine that comes from putting out a video that gets a bunch of views is very real, but we are not willing to let that guide the content. If we wanted to... See more

don’t know how else to explain it except to say that when I make time to read, my capacity to deal with my own life — and my own bullshit — expands . My natural tendency to be tightly wound loosens its grip.