Susie Conley

0:00 - You want to achieve mastery in some sense in your life. So all these things come together and so for some people community becomes very addictive. I’ve certainly been in communities about products or games, where [those topics] became 2nd importance. Because the community became the main driver to come back to this group of people to nerd... See more

0:00 - Brian: “What I look for when I’m hiring designers, or what is the experience of encountering someone on the internet is”…“proof of curiosity.” Is this person curious about the world to an extent that they take action on that curiosity? One simple example is when you learn about something, and you tweet about it and share it.

8:00-9:21 - The... See more

55:00 - It’s pretty common to have these two-sided integrations. For example, building on Slack, and also on Google Calendar. You are 2x-ing your risk. Because you have to keep up with changes happening on both platforms. And either platform may steal the idea as well. But those 2-sided integrations can also be a goldmine niche.

• https://www.swyx.io/create-luck/Think of a 2D surface area with one axis what you are “doing” and the other axis what your are “telling.” Have you done enough? Do more. Are you telling people about it enough? Tell it more. Further, this can be made into a 4D (a 2x2) surface area. With "General+Passive" luck in the bottom Left (think: privilege &... See more

It wasn’t until I read “The Wisdom Way of Knowing,” by Cynthia Bourgeault, an Episcopal priest, that I began to wonder if something was getting lost in our culture’s emphasis on time management. In the book, Ms. Bourgeault describes her rationale for how she organized a retreat for participants seeking to deepen their spirituality: “On Eagle... See more

0:00 - People are drawn to you for your specific skillset that only you can fill. There’s a U-shaped hole in the universe. And you created that gravitational pull that people find you. And I think as far as careers go, the more unique you are, the more un-subsitutable you are, the better compensated you will be. And the more you enjoy your job.

• Academic HCI work, where your output is published papers & it's very competitive. 

Why not just apple notes? Apple notes are good for a quick jot down. But it’s not to help you refine your thinking over time like Logseq will. Notes  can be much bigger, such as writing a book, or to design software.