Tejas Gawande
- Taste is eating software. Taste is the new weapon.
from Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. by Anu Atluru
⨠Where great ideas come from
Utility plus taste is the foundation of software now
- âIf your world is not enchanted, youâre not paying attention.â
from The Bucket Theory of Creativity by Alex Dobrenko
- When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. Itâs like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. Iâll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular Iâll remember everything better; everything wi... See more
from More People Should Write by jsomers.net
⨠Where great ideas come from
The mind is an auto-sorting machine. It subconsciously organizes better when it knows what youâre looking for
- Consumer demand for smaller scale and human-crafted versions of everything will grow in an AI world. While the future of work might lend itself to small business creation, letâs ****not forget the demand side of the equation. We are going to crave artisanal and story-driven sources and experiences. Why? As every big company floods the zone of our a... See more
from The Era of Scaling Without Growing & the Meaning Economy by Scott Belsky
⨠Where great ideas come from
AI might drive growth of more 'artisanal entrepreneurs'
"Remember you will have good seasons and bad seasonsâyou can't control the weather, only be prepared for it."
No matter how helpless you feel, there's always something you can do to set yourself up for success. Consider your positioning and how you can make tweaks that will put you in an advantageous spot for whatever season may come.
- A lot of care went into curating the environment around the childrenâfascinating guests were invited, libraries were built, machines were brought home and disassembledâbut the children were left with a lot of time to freely explore the interests that arose within these milieus.
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See morefrom Childhoods of Exceptional People
⨠Where great ideas come from
Exception people in their childhood had time to roam about and relied heavily on self-directed learning
- Exceptional people grow up in exceptional milieus
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exception... See morefrom Childhoods of Exceptional People
⨠Where great ideas come from
The adults had high expectations of the children; they assumed they had the capacity to understand complex topics, and therefore invited them into serious conversations and meaningful work, believing them capable of growing competent rapidly.
