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"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
- Twitter introducing Tip Jar is a reminder that microtransactions don't work. Someone sent a dollar on PayPal and PayPal took $0.33. Now do that at scale with a ton of articles. It doesn't work. Only one solution: pre-funded wallets baked into the platform or the browser.
Sublime Principles and Culture (shared internally with the team):
Be fanatic about product excellence
We're not in the business of creating software - we are in the business of building a product people love. Most organizations lower their standards in an effort to move things along and get things off their desks. We have to fight that impulse every
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- You can’t optimize your way toward feeling alive. Efficiency is a tool to enable life; it is not a life.
“One of the things that we think about is what the benefit of an incremental feature is, who it's benefiting, and what the cost of that feature is. And the cost is really the important underemphasized thing in this equation. It's often obvious the type of person who's asking for it, more powerful ways to sort your tags or whatever. You know, there'
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From Jeff Bezos’ conversation with Lex Fridman:
... See moreIf you think about the good old days, they're mostly an illusion. Like, in almost every way, life is better for almost everyone today than it was, say, 50 years ago or 100 years ago. We live better lives, by and large, than our grandparents did and their grandparents did, and so on. And you can see tha
