Big ideas
Speaking concisely
- Sharing links for Culture Forming and concise communication/ Jensen Huang sharing reasoning for succession/ Diner Gothic and Middle America
Two contradicting statements can be true at the same time | Most rules are fake
- Gwern Hacker Mindset
Power laws in a non financial sense
- Mental Models commentary Charlie Munger + Inkhaven
Everyone is lazy and wants things to be easier for them
- Shyam Shankar Hamburger, the superpower of Colin
Time impermanence in "Ancient" Greece
- Ryan Li Oswald Spengler
Introspection is scary
- Marc Andreesen, Living outward
Ingroup and outgroup for every social context
- Fear of Homeless/Guy at the bar/Model of the person
Words are too reductive for feelings/memories
- Words as variables through time and culture
Against Cynicism
- Will Manidis
Responding to notifications fast
- Pivot from DnD mode bc Eli/ late actions+emails compound
Reading in bed doesn't work because when you look at the bottom of the page you get involuntarily sleepy
Physicality, body language, and communication skills tell a life story
- Aza on Jasper Vyda, Valuing companies from their websites
Culture fit is the only way to grow a startup, technical skills are largely irrelevant / all problems are people problems
- Jacob and observations
Do not fix things unless they are problems
- Warpflight, Roon: the way every complex system works is that you deal with problems as they come up. something becomes too onerous to ignore and then you fix it. acceleration & iterative deployment has been the only option
Things should be what they say they are, schisms (feeling) when actions don't represent real intent