"Dangers: Personal ambition"
↳ That's the problem with our generation. Not enough team spirit
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Phil Knight’s manifesto for Nike from 1980 should honestly be hung in every startup office ever -
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I wanted to do this but for GCal a few years ago
I'll prolly get back to it at some point, but with a Grammarly-style weekly report —starring at a GCal dashboard sounds too dorky 🤣
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working on an insights dashboard for your time
what would you like to see here? github.com/calcom/cal.com
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I'm leaving "quick capture" for good in 2023: read-later & PKM apps (Matter, Pocket, Notion, Obsidian, …)
and instead adopting the "do it now or move on" mentality
"The brain is for having ideas not storing them" —is a feature not a bug
In the past 3y I been bulking —I gained a lot of muscle (knowledge) but also a lot of fat (PKM procrastination, information hoarding)
In 2023 i’m getting shredded:
- calories out > calories in (creating more)
- high protein (books) low carbs (YouTube) diet
- fasting (unplug)
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So many parallels between food and content:
→ empty vs dense calories
→ insulin — dopamine
→ fasting
→ calories in, calories out
→ we are what we eat, we think what we read/watch/listen
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Looking for non-linear table design inspiration, any ideas?
*what I call a linear table
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Notion is to neat freaks what Tiktok is to burnt out people
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Blueprint Autopilot is a new operating system.
Run it to score optimal fat and muscle (99% percentile).
+ Vegan
+ 1977 calories
+ 45 min exercise
Measured by gold standard MRI
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"All problems that are worth solving now are large scale coordination challenges" —
The feeling when your friends start using your app because they like it, not because you forced them to, worth the hundreds of hours building useless stuff 🥲
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People only being vocal about terrible experiences is therefore a feature not a bug
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Best companies focus on the worst percentile.
It usually leads to solving fundamental issues, making the experience better across the board.
→ Rippling monitors the last response time percentile, not mean/median.
→ Bezos said he always trusts individual reviews over metrics.
Best companies focus on the worst percentile.
It usually leads to solving fundamental issues, making the experience better across the board.
→ Rippling monitors the last response time percentile, not mean/median.
→ Bezos said he always trusts individual reviews over metrics.
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We often talk about the loneliness epidemic.
How about the busyness epidemic?
Love the idea of slow productivity by Cal Newport → let's play the long game!
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Finally 🤩
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I'm talking with Brian Johnson in a few minutes.
- Started and sold Braintree for $800m
- Now has a new project where he's going over the top and documenting his body
- Goal: decrease his biological age fast. Its wild.
What questions you want answered?
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I'm talking with Brian Johnson in a few minutes.
- Started and sold Braintree for $800m
- Now has a new project where he's going over the top and documenting his body
- Goal: decrease his biological age fast. Its wild.
What questions you want answered?
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when I see an arrow like this -> I stop reading…
please create a text replacement so it looks like this → ✨
Was thinking about that for goal setting:
We often set goals that aren't anchored to our current position ("I've never written before but I'm gonna blog every day")
It's like picking a new move & charging like crazy. Can't expect much from it… except an injury or never doing it
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Progressive overload, in all areas of life.
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People prefer failing conventionally than succeeding unconventionally.
What makes an Hall of Fame player different is their ability to consistently play at their highest level.
From — The Courage To Be Disliked
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TIL: you can't use `analytics` for your route name because browsers think it's a tracker so it blocks the calls 😑
Read-later apps are reading to-do lists but we use them as a swipe file.
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Read-later apps are painkillers. They just appease the FOMO.
We need to practice evaluating the value of an article as quickly as possible instead of postponing the filtering.
Curating > Capturing
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Read-later apps are painkillers. They just appease the FOMO.
We need to practice evaluating the value of an article as quickly as possible instead of postponing the filtering.
Curating > Capturing
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To build a great product, question every assumption.
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Newtab definitely looks fresher on Arch ✨
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Wow! this video turned me into a die-hard @browsercompany fan 
youtu.be/bOMQiMxh5Bc
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World-class players —Kobe Bryant, Tobi Lukte, Brian Chesky— focus on the meta game.
They operate on a high level of abstraction and study the fundamental laws of the game.
Most people look for quick hacks and short-term scoreboards. Most fail to see the bigger picture.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the ever increasing pace of technology hype cycles (AI -> SaaS -> Crypto -> AI etc. etc.) actually makes ideas *more* fragile.
It's easy to get distracted. Stay focused. It takes a long time to build something good.
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For months I was paralyzed by the fear of commitment.
Giving myself a trial period was the key to getting unstuck. It gave me the space to focus on the work rather than ruminating on the decision.
What felt like a life-defining decision, became trivial a few weeks later.
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Here’s an idea (+ domain) I had for years: ownalgo.com
This extension let’s you build a custom feed algo on top of social feeds (twitter, youtube, …) using masks
Overtime, the real algo will actually converge towards yours (a compelling theory to verify)
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How is it that Patrick Collison has a blog and I’ve never heard of it??
I guess I have to go and read the whole blog rn 🙄
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I want YC companies to admire great products - not great funding.
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Business model thinking is underrated
I love what has done with their subscription model, aligning their incentives with their community
Or Costco's membership disrupting wholesale
Highly recommend pod w Stratechery's Ben Thompson
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Without their permission —Alexis Ohanian
