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- Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
- Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might add up to the same four hours, but are not nearly as productive as an unbroken four. If I know that I am going to be interrupted, I can’t concentrate, and if I suspect that I mig... See more
from Neal Stephenson - Why I Am a Bad Correspondent by Neal Stephenson
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
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
Here's the template I use whenever I need to delegate something. It's yours to copy/use/steal. https://t.co/lCvAiAqTc0- What do you consider your greatest achievement so far?
Building a family. Building is a political philosophy – a very noble act. We talk a lot about the virtue of building in Silicon Valley, and for most people, family formation is the deepest and most tangible way in which they’ll experience building something from nothing that outlasts themselves... See morefrom Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle
being too intellectual is a terrible danger. it takes you further from your basic truth. “don’t think - feel”
- It’s time to say it out loud: BUILD LESS SOFTWARE Centering too much on adding new functionality will break your product, your users, and your team. Maybe your business. 1/10
product design and
- My philosophy re startup speed has completely changed over the last few years. I grew up at Uber, professionally, which held speed as the absolute, ultimate goal. Now, I still value speed, but hold quality as the binding constraint.
provocations and
agree w/this point. speed gets less important the more competitive your market is. when the market is already full of crap you really need to rise above the rest
