People love you, and then they hate you, and then they love you. The only thing that ultimately matters is how you feel about yourself. Trying to appease others is never a winning game.
“My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” Kushner told Rubin as they sat in his garden overlooking the ocean. “Sometimes I see or experience something and it makes sense to me, I fall in love, but I cannot explain why. Like when Thrive invested in Instagram or Spotify or OpenAI. I could... See more
“The vibes are off” is enough of a reason to leave. A lot of people think they need to be wronged, or have a logical reason to reject a person or scene. I truly, deeply believe that listening to your intuition is enough. Of course, you have to practice and develop your intuition; if you’re compulsively critical of everything, maybe you’re the... See more
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: The more things change, the more they stay the same. The author of this maxim is a justly forgotten Frenchman named Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. I write “justly,” for no words I know contain less truth than these. Plus ça change, plus ça change—the more things change, the more things change—is more like it.
Joseph Epstein, age 88, reflecting on tech
learnings: i used to feel like you had to make adhd slop to win on tiktok and i couldn't have been more wrong. my entire content style is around "narratives" and "storytelling" and it's often flopped on tiktok.
it's not that tiktok doesn't like deep stories -- it's more that every single video must be made with the... See more
One reason Replit's revenue is growing so fast is that they're in the equivalent of a high-performance climb. They weren't just sitting around doing nothing during the preceding years of slower growth. They were building the stuff that's helping them grow fast now.