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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw goodreads.com ↗
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A Services Firm Makes a Great Startup
The best argument I've read for staying a services firm instead of productising your way out of one. Beekey Cheung beekeycheung.substack.com ↗
Bespoke BIM Software Workflows
Selling software to everyone is very different than making software internally AEC Magazine (quoting Paul Jeffries) aecmag.com ↗
Bespoke Software Is the Future
Names the general-purpose tax, where you need about 10% of a general tool and pay for the other 90% in imposed abstractions. Farid Zakaria fzakaria.com ↗
Breaking Points
Puts a real cost on cutting someone off, because both people lose the version of themselves they became for the other. Agnes Callard harpers.org ↗
Cultivating Desire
This difference gave me the vocabulary to explain what "love" is in it's totality. The Knowledge Project open.spotify.com ↗
Conversations I Never Had
Being seen crying is its own kind of being known and I just love the quote about tears cleaning the window to the soulExperience Is Incompressible
You cannot fast track experience. To learn somethings, you just have to do it, you can't read or listen about it. Starting from Nix startingfromnix.com ↗
Feral Free Agents
Gives a name to people doing their own thing when entrepreneur, freelancer and self-employed all fit badly. Visakan Veerasamy visakanv.com ↗
Devote Yourself to the Cause of Your Life
Argues against scaling yourself out of your own work, because the meaning is in doing the labour. Evan Armstrong every.to ↗
Comfortable With Uncertainty
Keeping a felt sense of 'I don't know for sure' is what lets you notice the things your certainty would have filtered out. Michael Ashcroft every.to ↗
Flounder Mode
Permission to build a meaningful life by following interests with joy rather than torturing yourself into greatness. Brie Wolfson (quoting Kevin Kelly) joincolossus.com ↗
Friends Don't Know Me That Well
As friends, sometimes we think we know each other, but then they do something that confirms, they don't really know us at all. It's the lonely betrayal. tunmise adebowale oizystunmise.substack.com ↗
Get Rich, Stay Rich
Not having FOMO as the best financial skill, don't be tempted to change lanes just because someone else seems to be doing much better with less effort than you. The Knowledge Project open.spotify.com ↗
How the Workforce Learns
Once you're competent the employer stops teaching you, so learning on your own time is what buys freedom rather than more value for them. Degreed degreed.com ↗
How to Best Guide Your Life Decisions & Path
A single word for the things that feel too good and crowd out everything else you were trying to think about. Huberman Lab open.spotify.com ↗
Hypar and Trapped Expertise
The best one-line statement that describes siloed knowledge. Architosh (quoting Anthony Hauck) architosh.com ↗
Let Go of the Learning Baggage
The organisational half of the learning problem, where companies push growth into unpaid hours and then wonder why nobody grows. Farnam Street fs.blog ↗
Modern Friendship
Long friendship as a duality, atomised yet tethered, and the reminder that closeness requires asking for it. Starting from Nix startingfromnix.com ↗
Positioning Computational Designers
Most of my philosophy in someone else's words from 2017, and the industry still hasn't resolved the positioning problem. Proving Ground provingground.io ↗
Redefining Success, Money, and Belonging
Life's work is finding things that I want to keep doing for the sake of it, not for some metric like money, fame or prestige Lenny's Podcast open.spotify.com ↗
Services-as-Software
The clearest case that the newest AI products are re-acquiring service economics, even if it is VC talking their book. Foundation Capital foundationcapital.com ↗
Story Lessons
When you have too much material, the theme is what tells you which parts belong. Lawrence Yeo thinkinginstories.com ↗
Tell Good Stories
One person beats a million-death statistic, which is why an article should open with an individual and not a number. Jack Raines youngmoney.co ↗
The Death of the Corporate Job
The corporate role is dying the way religion did, with the structures all still standing and the belief evaporating. Alex (The Still Wandering) thestillwandering.substack.com ↗
The Engineering Mindset
Strategy as the constraint that focuses limited capacity, and the failure mode of refusing to believe an accurate diagnosis. Lenny's Podcast open.spotify.com ↗
The Key to Love Is Understanding
Love as an endless conversation that leaves you understood, that's why it runs out when either one of you stops talking.The Nothingness of Money
How to hold money's importance and its pointlessness at the same time, without being owned by either. Lawrence Yeo moretothat.com ↗
The One Thing You Can Say That Changes Everything
What to say when someone comes to you with something hard — something they haven't been able to say. Plus the cleanest distinction of boundaries I've found, which helped me understand what it means to set mine up. The Knowledge Project open.spotify.com ↗
The Spectrum of Wealth
This is the best descriptor of "wealth" for me. It's not just about money, it's also about freedom and time too. Morgan Housel collabfund.com ↗
The Twilight of the Chatbots
If domain experts can now build their own tools with AI, what is my value? Ethan Mollick oneusefulthing.org ↗
Why Content Is King
Content as extending the network of culture, which is a reason to keep making things that has nothing to do with reach or funnels. Nathan Baschez every.to ↗
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