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fears about yourself prevent you from doing your best work, while fears about your reception by others prevent you from doing your own work.
David Bayles • Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Introducing a Rocks, Sand, and Water Framework for Attention
We always talk about consumers’ attention as being finite, but how is it divided?
I imagine consumers as dividing their attention in a given day across three different types of “events” or modes: Events that span bigger blocks of contiguous time (“Rocks”), micro events that take advantage... See more
We always talk about consumers’ attention as being finite, but how is it divided?
I imagine consumers as dividing their attention in a given day across three different types of “events” or modes: Events that span bigger blocks of contiguous time (“Rocks”), micro events that take advantage... See more
The Opportunity and Risks for Consumer Startups in a Social Distancing World—A Framework for…
I think there is a reason that so little has gotten better and so much has gotten worse. It is this: The cost of so much connection and information has been the deterioration of our capacity for attention and reflection. And it is the quality of our attention and reflection that matters most.
New York Times • Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times
Keep in mind, the best work is one that flows and comes naturally to you, rather than you fighting against it.
Daniel Vassallo • Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes
-Payments (macro and micro): So long as cryptocurrencies require their users to have impeccable key management, blockchains can’t solve the peer-to-peer payments problem. Parallel to this, many economies are making big leaps forward in the ease of traditional payments. Look at Venmo in the U.S., M-Pesa in Africa, or AliPay and WeChat Pay in China.... See more
Haseeb Qureshi • We already know blockchain's killer apps
Signaling does not only explain luxury purchases but also consumption of all sorts of other goods: “Green products” are more about signaling a prosocial attitude than actually helping the environment. Other consumption signals include loyalty to a specific subculture (e.g. band t-shirts), athleticism & health consciousness (athleisure clothing) or... See more
Julian Lehr • Signaling as a Service
There are studies showing that productivity per hour drops after forty hours per week, and turns negative at higher levels — but these are studies of dangerous factory jobs, or monotonous call-center work. And I don’t doubt it. If I spent a hundred hours a week on the assembly line at a munitions factory, I’d probably end up dropping a missile on... See more
Byrne Hobart • The Startling Convexity of Expertise
In traditional journalism, there are strong incentives to act maliciously. Journalists are incentivized to optimize for views and clicks. The answer is not to reform the industry. We can change media through radical decentralization. Everyone becomes a journalist. Each person writes about their local issues or areas of expertise