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There are rewards to rewriting: the first draft was so embarrassing I couldn’t bear to let anyone look at it. The second draft is still not great, but the core of the story is there.  I’m working on the third draft now, and it’s starting to feel alive. And it’s getting easier, just like he wrote: throughout the day I have thoughts about paragr... See more

A curated gallery showcasing designs where no data is available in the UI.

To build up “a huge archive of thinking and feeling” seems a necessary project for any artist, even without publication as the eventual goal.

In all of these cases, the “drop” is valuable because it is artificially scarce; fewer people would want it if everyone could have it.

You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it

I think the first point of treating competitors with an ordinary mind is to see competition as the norm. Don't try to escape the competition, it's a good thing. I don't even think that competition should be ended by doing M&A.  We see a lot of companies that eliminate their rivals through M&A becoming complacent and end up sl

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Perhaps it is time to acknowledge it is not simply the fault of faceless machines? Consider, for example, the presence of bad and polarizing content on private messaging apps — iMessage, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp — used by billions of people around the world. None of those apps deploy content or ranking algorithms. It’s just humans talking to huma... See more