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Success is never a straight line. Walt Disney is decades into his career. An undisputed success. Yet depressed. Life is all peaks and valleys - for everyone.
- Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. We're
all trying to figure out our own customs for getting free of it.
That's why I don't have an iPhone, for example; the last thing I
want is for the Internet to follow me out into the world.
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My latest trick is taking long hikes. I used to think running was a
better form of exercise than hik... See morefrom The Acceleration of Addictiveness
Paul Graham, 2010
- - As education of web 2.0’s shortcomings rises, users will prefer credibly neutral platforms that lack altogether the capacity for arbitrary censorship, undue rent extraction (also in the form of privacy cost), or sudden cessation.
from Into The Void by Piers Kicks
- Prince Harry’s “Spare” was ghostwritten by J.R. Moehringer, who is the world’s best-paid ghostwriter. He reportedly got paid $1m for “Spare” and also ghost-wrote two other bangers: Andre Agassi’s “Open” and Phil Knight’s “Show Dog”.
- Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver At... See more
from The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine by Larry Page
- Variable-ratio schedules are unpredictable because the number of responses between reinforcers varies. Telemarketers, salespeople, and slot machine players are on this schedule because they never know when the next sale or the next big win will occur.
from Incentives: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior by Farnam Street
- when something that previously didn’t work suddenly does, it doesn’t necessarily mean the people who tried it first were wrong. It usually means other parts of the system have evolved in a way that allows what was once impossible to now become practical.
from Experts From a World That No Longer Exists · Collaborative Fund by collaborativefund.com
- An extension to color text on Wikipedia according to how long it’s been part of the page.
from Ideas I'm Thinking About by Jonathan Borichevskiy
- On the surface, I realize, that looks a lot like adding a hashtag to a document. In practice, though, I found myself using bidirectional links much differently than tags. In Roam, I created bidirectional links to concepts that I wanted to explore, like “the internet is too fast” or “social networks have been a boon to the conservative movement.” Wh... See more
from Notes on a year using Roam Research by Casey Newton