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- A tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer , standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with oth... See more
from The Feedback Tradeoff by Leber
great observation. some of the best ideas and revolutionary scientists came from people that were insulated from others’ feedback
What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If you are looking for a friend in a crowd, faces become salient to you, faces that would have otherwise passed you by. If you are making videos, you will notice patterns in the videos you watch. If you’re not, you can watch a thousand videos and have them pass through your head clean
... See morefrom How MrBeast Learns by Henrik Karlsson
Business Models and
- Building friction into community ensures best-in-class retention: ~85% of Bilibili users retain after 12 months.
from 5 Lessons from China's Internet Companies by Rex Woodbury
- I find it fascinating & troubling that humans are getting lonelier as we simultaneously create a world that’s both safer and wealthier.
from Tweet by Esther Crawford
- “One reason political polarization tends to be confined to the young and(/or) stupid is this: anyone over 35 possessed of any observational nous has noticed that there is no correlation between political allegiance and basic decency as a human being” – Rory Sutherland recent tweet
from #401 - Rory Sutherland - The Psychology Of Transport, Google Maps & Bear Attacks by Chris Williamson
I don’t love writing; I love having a problem I believe I might someday write my way out of.
from 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you write the first draft, don’t let the judgy editor get near. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment.
from Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist by Kevin Kelly
- Technology treats the process of consuming and the process of creating as distinctly different, when the reality is that for our brains, the process of absorbing a book is not all too different from the process of producing one. We are always seeking new connections, combining and recombining old ideas to produce new ones. So why is it that we cons... See more
from Things I'm thinking about by sari azout