If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp and indifferent, and sometimes another moss spreads nearby, and together they make a bog, and then the bog swallows a horse."
From An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
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Festina lente / make haste slowly
Tasks should be approached with a balance of urgency and diligence to avoid mistakes and achieve optimal long-term results.
“I didn’t know whether or not to laugh or cry when he said that Trader Joe’s target customer is overeducated and underpaid.” Book Thoughts: Becoming Trader Joe
How to market open core products
Instead of: “Why the ‘free’ version of [INSERT OPEN CORE PRODUCT NAME] could be your most expensive mistake.” A variant: “[INSERT OPEN SOURCE PROJECT] is complex and difficult to secure.”
Try: “why these pay-for features will make you awesome and solve shitty problems you toil away at every day.”
Filtered
“All of my news was filtered through AI.”
🔗 Good Morning & Good Luck
“a giant turd of text” Oracle - ‘Generic AI stops at 60%, industry expertise is the missing 40%’
“the flying car of the mind” AI is the flying car of the mind: Irresistible, impractical
Weird
Every culture with a weird thing thinks they’re the only one with the weird thing.
Defining slop
“It is generic and all the same personalized, the Big Mac without the onions.” defining slop
“The context window is a public good.” Skill authoring best practices,Claude Docs