[The best way to grow your newsletter/podcast/blog is to get featured on one by someone else.]
[The best way to grow your newsletter/podcast/blog is to get featured on one by someone else.]
The questions and answers reveal what was not asked.
Every mistake I make now is one I don't have to make later.
Clear expression in music, without overcompensation or moving faster than your thought, is an extension of clear expression in speech and perhaps every other way.
The customer mission might be something subconscious or never put into words: a musician doesn't want to learn songs, they want to play like Chris Potter.
Each node on the network increases the potential for discovering the other nodes. Plant seeds.
[Do it 100 times.]
- fucking is labor, fuckability is capital.
"Building political viewpoints into the platform" versus "Using the desire for apolitics to further adoption". In this context, not taking a political stance can ultimately serve your political interests because moderation and censorship ultimately social not technical.
Technology is not neutral. The model is more neutral than the implementation. Politics is in the details.
Learn to enjoy and expect being surprised.
Be the most abundant source of your own qualities.
Write to remember if there is no other context into which you can encode it: social exchanges, creation, publishing are much more memorable.
My knowledge is embodied, often invisible: isn't everyone's?
Journaling is about capturing a chronological stream – the points in these lists are not necessarily related to one another. Zettelkasten is about extracting each point into a seperate note and placing it 'next to' something. It isn't necessary to write prose to integrate, it's a simpler act of contextualizing by position.
A spatial organization needs a spatial interface.
When introducing yourself into a new place: don't hide your wings; don't apologize for your shortcomings; be strong as yourself, tell people who you are.
[Institutional leverage silences the movement.]
[Passiveness will construct information, not knowledge.]
[Learning without exchanging with others can produce encyclopedic awareness that fails to be critical or read what isn't written.]
Creativity is answering "and then what".
[Vibe not bribe.]
Write when you have a clear intention. There is no need to force a process.
To make notes on what is not written. (What does the author leave out? What does it imply? What is nobody saying? What does nobody see?)
Generosity and kindness, to yourself and everyone.