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combat fiction with fiction

Joined January 2012
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." - A
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“God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world.” -FB
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“The purest delegation of power is to individuals in a free market.”
“Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated by it and call it fate.” -CJ
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If you are easily provoked you are easily controlled.
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If you win a confidence vote with 51.5%, did you really win?
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Whether in commerce, science, or politics, history remembers the artists.
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If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting the rest of your life.
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The best technology doesn’t win, the best marketed technology does. (Believe this is a @pmarca quote but can’t find the source.)
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Replying to @TheStoicEmperor
Boredom is a defense mechanism to avoid having to sit alone with our unaddressed thoughts.
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If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it.
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“Life has no theory, only practice.” - KOK
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.
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Really hoping we have hit peak Brussels sprouts.
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The saying that it takes much more energy to displace than install falsehood is itself a falsehood 1) Sticky "falsehoods" are beneficial or useful for survival (placebo, superstition) 2) Falsehood can only persist if #Lindy 3) Nonhelpful falsehoods tend to collapse very quicky
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We still haven’t quite figured out the right UI paradigms for deep work… But for close collaboration on a deadline, technology is now *great*. AirDrop, Slack, WhatsApp, Google Drive, Google Docs, Zoom. Things are so much better than they were a decade ago.
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If you have faith, and if you believe in something hard enough, and deeply enough, and with all your heart, so what.
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The ideas that kill incumbents are the ones they don't want to believe will work.
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To understand the probabilistic argument for the simulation hypothesis, notice that the number of characters that have lived and died in video games is far greater than the number of people that have lived and died in history.
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