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I am impressed by the amount of ingenuity people put into avoiding learning how to like more kinds of people. Genius-level IQs laser-focused on avoiding expanding the 'like' zone. Not

It’s kinda funny how global political and corporate leadership has clearly decided to learn nothing from Covid.Nice that we got new vaccine technology out of it, but otherwise it’s “carry

Just did an analysis of 10 years of half-assed self-publishing. Executive summary: Life in the long tail10 years (started with Tempo paperback in May 2011)10 volumes — 9 ebook-only, 1

To disrupt, you have to serve a marginal customerTo be product-driven, you have to serve your own visionSo to self-disrupt, you have to serve a currently marginal part of your

Thanos test: how you would choose 50% of the world to kill?Capitalism: bottom 50%Communism: top 50%Libertarianism: all-against-all. 50% left standing wins.Anarchism: random 50%Liberalism: debate till nature does the dirty workConservatism:

I once saw a print exhibition where one of the exhibits was a woodcut panel (the kind from from which limited edition prints are made), with a gash cut across

Storytelling has gotten so damn efficient due to screen media. A well-scripted modern TV show moves along incredibly briskly. It’s like Lean Storytelling. Shortest path through the beats of the

Plot and character are in some ways the commodity elements of fiction, and how-to books spend 90% of their words on those. But good genre fiction usually seems to center

Dunning-Kruger asymmetry. The less confident, more doubtful must always work to understand the ones more sure of themselves. Just like people living in cities often pay extra taxes.https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/132557873222093209

This QT is my election livetweet thread. Now that things are winding down into a tight endgame with a cloud of murky lawsuits and doubt-merchanting hanging over them... I hereby

Damn, hadn’t read this. This is basically C. S. Lewis 1944 edition of my Gervais principle, but with reco that you aspire to a sort of conscious cluelessness (“craftsman”) and

The older I get the more it sinks in that 90% of effectiveness is just taking a thing seriously enough. That translates to just wanting the thing itself rather than