Tejas Gawande
@tejas
Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
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Or, as Nietzsche put it in an aphorism cited by Oppezzo and Schwartz, “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
I wouldn’t go so far, but the spirit of the sentiment seems true enough. I’ve lately heard a great deal about how writing is a form of thinking. There is a stronger sense in which one could take that claim, but it at least means... See more
I wouldn’t go so far, but the spirit of the sentiment seems true enough. I’ve lately heard a great deal about how writing is a form of thinking. There is a stronger sense in which one could take that claim, but it at least means... See more
The Ambling Mind
Both writing and waking, each in their own way, seem to calibrate the tempo of our minds to the rhythm of thought
Great ideas require taste
Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy
The Top of My Todo List
A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying
Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
Great ideas require taste
The idea of putting things in a box just doesn’t work for me. It worked for a generation that was supposed to be where they are. My story starts from immigrant parents from Ghana in West Africa. On the will of my dad making it to America, I was afforded the range of options opposite from a third world country.
Being an outsider allowed Abloh to... See more
Trung Phan • 9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
The importance of an outsider perspective
The mathematical genius Alexander Grothendieck once had a metaphor for solving problems. He suggested that instead of forcing open an impossibly hard kernel with a hammer and chisel, one should simply let it sit in water and wait. Over time, the shell softens and opens with ease. This is also true in writing; time is the only non-substitutable... See more
Epiphanies Come From Waiting
Epiphanies come from waiting. You need patience, to let your ideas transform into what they could be.
Cultivate optimistic delusion
In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for... See more
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Process vs. intuition
Real luxury