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Apr 28, 2024
Offline Experiences
"Professional Managers"
There is absolutely NOTHING worse than people who actually WANT to manage other people.
The bigger the company gets, the more these types of people start showing up. They typically are NOT BUILDERS and they seem to spend more time in meetings, managing up, and sending emails that nobody reads. They don't make build anything... they just... "manage." They share biiiiiiiiiiig visions and spend most their time talking about the vision, presenting the vision, and hiring large teams to execute the vision... but the vision never happens because the vision requires a lot of work and not just a bunch of delegation. The bigger the vision the more work is required. And a lot of work requires people to actually be motivated and inspired to do the work... Very few people are inspired by people who just delegate all day long. People are inspired by leaders who work really, really hard.
Apr 19, 2024
Apr 14, 2024
Apr 9, 2024
Ralph Lauren & Wabi-Sabi
This shirt, I bought at Kmart. This is living proof of what I believe in. I love the aging of it, I love the rips, I love it all. And I didn't design it? I didn't design it. I assumed it was No, I happen to like this because it's the one that I have memories of. And how come you chose it for this conversation today?
Mar 30, 2024
Mar 29, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
Signed Business Card by Steve Jobs Sells for 181K
Prior to this sale, RR Auction has offered a total of 10 Steve Jobs business cards, with just one dating to circa 1983. This offered Apple Computer business card represents our second from that elusive time frame, but it is made exponentially rarer by the presence of Jobs’s bold, neatly placed signature. Less than five Jobs-signed Apple Computer business cards—from any period—have successfully passed PSA/DNA authentication.
Mar 24, 2024
🎶 Music: Waxahatchee & MGMT
🎶 Waxahatchee featuring MJ Lenderman – Right Back to It
MJ Lenderman also plays in the band, Wednesday, which I previously wrote about here.
Also worth listening to... the new MGMT. Good album, not as good as Dark Age, but still good. The song linked below is incredible. Feels like an arena song you would have heard Queen play.
🎶 MGMT featuring Christine and The Queens – Dancing in Babylon
Mar 21, 2024
Mar 19, 2024
Taste Matters
"Use data to reinforce decisions. But don’t let data or people tell you what is or isn’t cool. No one actually knows. Make stuff you’re proud of. Stuff that you think is cool. Your taste is entirely unique. Let your taste steer your decisions. You’d be surprised how many people will begin trusting you once you begin making stuff you are proud of."
Mar 18, 2024
AI & The Inevitable Nuclear Power Debate
Mar 16, 2024
REPORT: Country Western (cowboy core?) Trend Update
I have written a lot about a trend I called Country Retro Futurism. Some are calling it Cowboy Core...
Waaaay back in 2022, I hypothesized that as global chaos continued to rise and people grew increasingly weary of hyper-filtered, fake social media content, they would seek authenticity/simpler times, triggering a COUNTRY WESTERN TREND. [READ THE FULL REPORT HERE]
Mar 7, 2024
This is why Nvidia wins
Jensen Huang washed dishes at Denny’s. Bezos worked the grill at McDonald’s.
Both started working at 15.
“No task is beneath me.”
Mar 5, 2024
Anthropic’s Claude 3 knew when researchers were testing it
Mar 2, 2024
The illusion of certainty, James Burke, 1986
"Discovery isn't discovery, it's just the invention of another version of how things are."
Mar 1, 2024
How 40 Hz Light and Sound Waves Could Halt Alzheimer’s
Links
Let's be honest though... Vice fell off long before they decided to shut it down.
Sixty-one percent of Gen Z reported that they favor user-generated content over other content formats.
A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.
Dude sounds like an ABSOLUTE FREAK! –
Johnson, a 46-year-old centimillionaire who made his fortune in Silicon Valley but is best known for waging a war on death that he claims to be winning. His ambitions are somehow greater, and more science-fictional, than those of other biohackers and life-extension fanatics—a group that includes Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg. Johnson preaches perhaps the most brazen iteration of Silicon Valley’s emerging obsession with AI and commitment to restructuring society around the technology. He believes he has figured out how algorithms, instead of ruining civilization, can lead him to the land of immortals.
Feb 27, 2024
🎶 Music: Wednesday
DIAGRAM 1: The Spawning of Wednesday
DIAGRAM 1: The holy trinity of sad queens have given birth to Wednesday, a wailing quintet from Asheville, whose sound is a haunting combination of wailing 90s skuzz/distortion and country twang that creates a rich tapestry of sadness. Their latest album entitled, “Rat Saw God,” beautifully captures the American South, weaving memories and deeply personal stories into this sort of humorous but tragic reflection of growing up in the suburbs of Greensboro.Feb 15, 2024
[REPORT] Anti-Pattern Engineering: 50/50 Rule
With everything you create – half the people should love it and the other half should absolutely hate it. The world’s best creative work always elicits extreme reactions, with audiences and critics alike unequivocally falling into one of two camps: passionate admiration or complete disdain. Good marketing starts with getting people’s attention and whether people love it or hate at least you’ve got their attetion and by talking about it they are helping you amplify your awareness.