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Websites are places. They provide services and social environments. Like architecture, they distribute access and atmospheric context to these resources: Watching a video on Nowness is different from watching a video on YouTube.

The pitch is simple. “They get to feel good about themselves. They get to diversify the revenue. And they don’t have to take a financial hit because we’re able to deliver the sales that they want.”

Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to do, and sometimes we don’t know how to prioritize or organize. Getting help with that is good! But if that’s all we wanted, I don’t think motivational grifters could get rich telling us how lazy we are.

The Bible begins with creation, Mark thinks this is a very intentional message. We were made to create. Mark h as made religion more of a priority in his life since having children.

The easiest way to open up our notes to infinites would be to let our notes search online to grow autonomously. By this, I mean: what if our notes searched the web for ideas that agreed with us or critiqued us, while we weren’t tending to them? This would transform note-taking into a truly valuable investment – put in a few ideas, discover many mor

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John Wanamaker, and he said something really smart related to advertising. He said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” That's sort of a special theory of decision making. I think there's a general theory of decision making, which is that 50% of what anyone does is important; we just don't know... See more