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Anorak Matfly retweeted
Apple held a special event 21 years ago today, on October 12, 2005 at the California Theater in San Jose.
Steve Jobs introduced the updated iMac G5 with a new built-in iSight camera 📸
He also showed off the new Photo Booth app and ended up having some fun with the demo 🤣
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Elon Musk’s Starship flips mid-air and lands like a car, every landing brings Mars closer.
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Nvidia CEO: doing great work is not about joy and happiness every day.
Doing great work is not always easy, it is often very hard work, over a long period of time.
Great work is about loving what you do and resilience.
Anorak Matfly retweeted
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
- Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, novelist, and playwright who became one of the defining figures of French Romanticism. Born in Besançon into a military family, he displayed remarkable literary talent from a young age. His early poetry and plays helped establish him as a leading voice in the Romantic movement, which challenged traditional literary conventions and rigid social expectations.
Hugo became famous for powerful, emotionally rich stories that combined deeply personal struggles with sweeping social and historical themes. His most celebrated works include Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, along with an extensive collection of poetry. Throughout his writing, he repeatedly examined poverty, injustice, redemption, revolution, and compassion for society’s most vulnerable and rejected people.
Beyond literature, Hugo was deeply involved in the political struggles of his era. His opposition to Napoleon III led to nearly two decades of exile, during which he continued writing and advocating for republican government and human rights. Today, Hugo is remembered as one of the most influential writers in French literature, and his works continue to be read, performed, and adapted throughout the world.
Anorak Matfly retweeted
one Opus 5.5 prompt, and now I run around a virtual office managing agents to work on github issues and merge conflicts
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Mental strength is not a gift, it is something that you have to work very hard to develop.
A masterclass on focus, by Novak Djokovic
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Michael Jordan says he didn't want anything to do with people who skip steps to become a winner
"You gotta have a passion, you gotta put forth the work, to me thats a process, that is a winner"
This is why Jordan hasn't wanted anything to do with Lebrons cheating ass
Anorak Matfly retweeted
All of us need to be on guard against arrogance, which knocks at the door whenever you are successful. —Steve Jobs
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Tom Brady: “You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure.”
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Nvidia CEO: there is no replacement for hard work. You need grit. You need resilience.
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Players to have averaged 30+ PPG and make an All-Defensive Team in the same season:
Michael Jordan — 7x
'88, '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, '96
All other players — 6x
Kobe (3), Wade, Kareem, Jerry West
Dominance at its purest.
Anorak Matfly retweeted
Mark Zuckerberg on how he builds products
“When things are working well, you use data and the qualitative feedback you’re getting from listening to how your community is using your product to tell you what problems to go solve. And then you basically use intuition to figure out what the solutions to those problems might be. And then you test those hypotheses by rolling them out and getting more data and feedback.”
Mark uses News Feed as an example.
“It was a relatively big shift for the product, but it had actually been a couple of years in the making from just watching how people were using the service.”
The early Facebook team could see from their data that lots of users were clicking on friends' profiles to see what changed. This helped them realize that their users weren't only interested in looking up their friends' profiles, but they were also interested in monitoring the day-to-day changes.
They then rolled out a simple version News Feed to test their hypothesis:
“The first version of News Feed was really simple. All it did was it basically took the content that people were posting and put it in order on your homepage.”
They used a combination of data and intuition to iterate from there, but this simple insight and experiment led to massive shift in product direction. And it highlights what a good product process looks like: listen to your users to identify problems, and treat your solutions as hypotheses.
Source: @ycombinator (Aug 2016)