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- One year since the best "job pitch" I've ever received. Lesson: Shoot your shot.
- Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful. Govindappa Venkataswamy
Edwin Land, the scientist and inventor best known for co-founding the Polaroid Corporation and inventing instant photography, said, “My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know they had.”
- The best book dedication I’ve ever read: "And finally, to Venice [his daughter], to whom this book is dedicated. The idea for this project started when you were a one-year-old, and it was completed when you were six. The intervening five years have been among the happiest… Show more
- An underrated way to succeed at anything is simply to be ten times better. Everyone wants to have a unique idea or be a monopoly but you can just be ten times better instead. In a lot of areas, no one is really trying. The world is coated with a film of inertia.
- The gig economy is thriving. But have you ever heard of a Bread Fund? In the Netherlands, they're gaining popularity with the self-employed as a pioneering model of self-organizing, peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance. They work like this...
- chatgpt has no social features or built-in sharing, you have to sign up before you can use it, no inherent viral loop, etc. seriously questioning the years of advice i gave to startups 🙃
- 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