Quotes
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The nice thing about tools you make for yourself is that you get to change them when they don’t work the way you thought.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Less tech is always the best tech
we need you, the creator, to persist!
Part of the problem is that we measure what’s easy, not what’s relevant.
We have always had validation machines. We just keep upgrading the interface.
I don't let the old man in.
To people who have never tried anything, above average is awesome.
The whole point of due process is that it slows you down - it must slow you down.
Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place - only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when.
There is no ‘source of truth’ when everything changes at every moment.
There are certain fundamental rules of business. The reasons some of them exist will reveal themselves as you grow.
The lack of comments, reposts, follower counts, and algorithmic feeds helps reduce things like performance addiction, mob behavior, and the spread of misinformation.
Learning how to forgive myself for not being consistent day-to-day. Sometimes, consistency can look more like week-to-week, or month-to-month. Even then, it’s okay to fall off or take a break. I can come back anytime.
Reality is neither quick, nor easy, nor money.
Instruments have not yet been devised that operate on the scale necessary to capture the full magnitude of our disinterest in the collective opinions of people whose defining characteristic is their aptitude for holding collective opinions.
I think I often end up holding myself back, limiting my options and potential, because I care about form and doing things properly so much.
Routines are not fixed. They shift because we shift. They depend on circumstances, energy, and the version of ourselves that exists in a particular moment.
I like learning and knowing. I like thinking about learning and knowing and thinking about thinking about learning and knowing.
[Steve] Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.
Not everything needs to have an explanation. Some things need to be mysterious to stay magical.
I want to be able to only spend time on things that matter the most to me in life: family and friends, rich experiences, and meaningful work.
The hardest thing to write is less.
It’s probably good practice to do your own research before you rope in another person on a cognitive task.
Personal curation is a feature, not a bug.
Effort that leaves no trace is indistinguishable from effort that never happened.
Constraints produce thought.
Convenience leads to consumption.