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The Effort Paradox
You have to put in more effort to make something appear effortless.
Effortless, elegant performances are often the result of a large volume of effortful, gritty practice.
Small things become big things. Simple is not simple.
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Making work easier. This is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies.
Jerry Seinfeld's Speech At Duke's 2024 Commencement (Transcript)
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Consumer Social and
Is there a sustained move toward delivery and away from in-restaurant dining in that new world? Yes. Not to sound callous, but that’s it. I thought that shift was going to happen over the next 10, 15 years, and no one would have noticed because it would’ve happened gradually. This change is now going to happen instantaneously.
New York Times • David Chang Isn’t Sure the Restaurant Industry Will Survive Covid-19 (Published 2020)
a16z Podcast: The New Fan Club—Creators, Fans, and the Power of Markets (& Crypto) | Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.comfears 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
Working on the virtual world Second Life at the time I had the proverbial “front row seat” to what online interaction could look like down in the future. It was, or rather is, a fully user-constructed shared virtual world. Think Minecraft but like 100x less successful!
Hunter Walk • “Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community” Started With Video Games (Or Maybe Religion?)
What’s interesting is that iMessage and TikTok are polar opposites: iMessage is where you connect with your closest contacts, and TikTok is where you connect with strangers. Facebook’s suite of products falls into the wasteland of “loose social ties” in the middle. Zuckerberg is being attacked from both sides.