Every time I fail a spaced repetition review for a card which I remember thinking was almost too trivial to write down, I become more convinced that everything I read without making cards for is a waste of time.

if you can’t find joy in a cup of coffee, you won’t find it in a yacht. gratitude treats all things the same.

NEW PROJECT — I made a "personal search engine" that lets me search all my blogs, tweets, journals, notes, contacts, & more at once 🚀 It's called Monocle, and features a full text search system written in Ink 👇 GitHub ⌨️ https://github.com/thesephist/monocle... See more

Cancel culture creates a mega opportunity for a new social network -- Twitter 2.0 1. Pseudonymous (no verified profiles!) so you can't be cancelled and policies are applied fairly 2. Public follow graph + DMs (Twitter + Telegram) 3. Discovery engine to find insightful new voices

What an interesting moment. We're staring at two distinctly different visions of the future. They may co-exist, but they are radically different takes on what's modern, what's current, and where things are headed. One vision gets the UI out of the way. The other vision is UI… Show more

Here are screenshots of Amazon. Everything shaded in blue is an ad. No wonder they did $20B+ in ads last year. That’s more than 2x the revenue for Snap, Twitter and Pinterest...combined.

Start a DAO in four steps. 1) Create a token using a Mirror crowdfund. 2) Store funds in a Gnosis Safe multi-sig. 3) Setup a Snapshot space for governance. 4) Make a Discord with token-gated access. All of which is free to use (minus gas). Good luck!

Brave thing I heard in a board meeting this week: “I don’t know if we have a good answer to that, yet.” Admitting you *don’t know* the answer is hugely productive. We’re trying to find, together, the important things we don’t know the answers to Striking how rarely it is said

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.