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[Trolling is posting where the reaction is the content.]
[The real hallmark of abundance is variety not quantity.]
[Facebook's real product is the ability to find lookalike customers: turn this audience of 10 into 1000 that are similar.]
[Kids understand systems well because because they don't think in terms of cause and effect: they look around and make things.]
[Silicon Valley wins because it is a culture that values building over solving problems.]
[The purpose determines the course. If we are clear about 'why', then the how is more evident and we can define success.]
Indian music, sangeet, was originally conceived as an offering. Tagore said that creativity comes from a recognition of the excess that life has given to us: we offer what is bit ours.
[Learn to cook so that you will have an excuse to invite friends over for he rest of your life.]
[Spreadsheets integrate text and graphics by organizing textual programs or formulas into the tabular grid of visual cells.]
[Spreadsheets pre-name variables according to their position on the grid.]
Let's talk about Biden's mental state....
[In the face of a wild accusation that's false, try leaning into it: isn't it great that a team of experts rather than a politician is making decision? If the vice president has the final call, it must be terrible for Trump. Can you imagine how bad it must have been that we elected a guy with dementia?]
More than people knowing who you are, give them chances to see you in action.
Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
[Van de Bergh et al suggest that the brain reduces bandwidth in 'raw experience' when it is intolerable, which is why trauma victims describe their traumas as short, undetailed, and to-the-point.]
Whenever the party you don't like says something seemingly reasonable, you can interpret in context as them wanting something horrible. Whenever they want a seemingly desirable thing, you secretly know it means they want a horrible moral atrocity. If a Republican talks about "law and order", it doesn't mean they're concerned about the victims of violent crime, it means they want to lock up as many black people as possible to strike a blow for white supremacy. When a Democrat talks about "gay rights", it doesn't mean letting people marry the people they love, it means destroying the family so they can replace it with state control over your children.
If it's essentially harmful can it be justified as 'temporary'?
[Contemporary utopia is resistance against entities claiming that history is over, that we should accept things as we are, that there are no alternatives.]
Nature is prolific.
Baremetrics Founder Josh Pigford on Side Projects and Growing a $1 Million SaaS Startup
[If they're not paying, their feedback will likely be that of someone trying to get something for nothing as opposed to those who value the offering.]
Not all bricks are nourishing. Be aware of what is being practiced.
Time-based notes with Alexander Griekspoor
[Despite having training materials and support, people generally learn the tool socially.]
[Build community forum posting into the app.]
[Ask people to describe their workflows.]
['Identity theft' is favourable because it absolves institutions of their responsibility to secure their authentication systems.]
Nature is abundant. Nature does not imagine.
[End-user programming languages are more motivating to learn when they are task-oriented: instead of making available only smaller primitives, provide higher-level abstractions that actually do complete jobs.]
[Spreadsheets are approachable not because most people know how to add and subtract, but because that's what accountants and business people do.]
[Go beyond 'easy to use' and prioritize early success within a few hours of use to increase motivation.]
[Avoid 'having to know everything to do anything']
[Spreadsheets obviate the need for control structures or variable names.]
[Happiness is a choice.]
How can we appropriate the mind's repetition and 'latching onto things' to reinforce healthy practices?
[Start out by not letting anyone touch it without being there to show how it works. First give a demo to let them see what they can do with the product, then guide them while they try it for themselves.]
[Help provide context and help them understand why they should care.]
