Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Rule of thumb: Ideas and feature requests should be understood, but not obeyed.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Robin Hanson and I share a belief that two rationalists should not agree to disagree: they should not have common knowledge of epistemic disagreement unless something is very wrong.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.
Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
thoughts instead.
Rachel Rodgers • We Should All Be Millionaires
with the limitations of an idea: it makes you look smart.* Rufus Griscom first discovered this early in his career, which started in publishing. “There’s nothing more shameful than writing a review that’s too positive,”
Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
An audience believes as long as we don’t give them reason to doubt.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
people we can trust because we think we know how they think.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
"It's a feature that trust doesn't scale" - DHH
writing is thinking. In fact there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing. You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:
So a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots. I know w... See more
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.
So a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots. I know w... See more