Small fragments. Things I read, heard, or couldn't stop thinking about. These are too short for essays but too good to lose. Sort of like commonplace book meets tumblelog.
524 bits, and counting.
Can Twitter be used for knowledge work?
I'm considering a 90-day Twitter experiment where I share interesting reads and use threads to:
The company will mold you to their exacting specifications to do whatever form of service they require...if your company needs a Java-speaking systems engineer and you have a degree in Art History, this is not a problem because you can be fixed.
This entire performance is flawless. Give your ears an hour of love.
Shipped off 7 rolls of film today to get developed. One of the rolls took 6 months to get through. I can't wait to see these old moments.
Just look at all of Google's products (had to shrink my browser viewport just to fit them all)! You can't tell me that there aren't cracks in the product lineup just waiting to get exploited by asymmetric innovations.
For big tech, a product is just a line item in a P&L statement. For a startup, it's life or death.
Everyone, regardless his age and job, can come up with extraordinary, wild, new and at times brilliant inventions.
— Gianluca Gimini
Long term, it'll be interesting to see if the incumbents acquire Slack and Zoom to achieve domain leverage (opens cross-sale opps) or subsidize their competitive offerings with their existing base and just race to the price bottom (hard to beat free especially if you're an SMB).
Slack and Zoom may be the strongest companies that have emerged over the last decade that independently pose significant threats (DAU, subscriber numbers, etc.) to incumbents like Microsoft and Google as they try to monetize outside their cores in the collaboration space.
Let go of one physical item every day. Gift it to someone who'll get value or discard responsibly. No reason to sell and profit unless you must. Do this for 30 days. If you have nothing else to part with, give people your time and compassion.
I'm an artist, it's core to my job to imagine realities that don't necessarily exist and it's a joy to.
Let's see how the CPUs contained in recent USB-C wall chargers compare to the power of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC). The Apollo 11 spacecraft carried 3 humans to the moon and back in 1969.
Would the internet have grown as rapidly as it did between 2000-2020 without Google?
L.A. is the apocalypse: it's you and a bunch of parking lots. No one's going to save you; no one's looking out for you. It's the only city I know where that's the explicit premise of living there – that's the deal you make when you move to L.A.
— BLDGBLOG
Days like this.
That's why I always find myself digging in the past—it helps me understand the possible futures. I see a reference and try to figure it out on a deeper level, how it came to exist.
— Hassan Rahim
Went for a sunrise hike a couple of weekends ago. Rewarded with this gorgeous view.
The chief characteristic of handcrafts is that they maintain by their very nature a direct link to the human heart, so that the work always partakes of a human quality.
— Yanagi Sōetsu