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Apple’s website before and after the return of Steve Jobs. pic.twitter.com/A9s2YxuD78— Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) October 18, 2023

Paul Graham has a great essay on the 18 mistakes that kill startups. Really, he says, there’s just one mistake that kills startups:

Everything you need to know about how to be an interesting person: • Strong opinions, loosely held• Have well-researched opinions and stand behind them• Most people are vanilla and do not have strong opinions• Find something that interests you and turn it into a…— Podcast Notes 🗒️ (@podcastnotes) September 26, 2023

"We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think"Antonio Damasio, Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California pic.twitter.com/3KuljR5d2X— richard shotton (@rshotton) September 23, 2023

The Musk biography is really a business book dressed in a personal tale. Easily worth the read alone for the vivid tutorial in how to apply The Algorithm.

Ernest Hemingway on this day in 1952, shortly after publication of The Old Man and the Sea. pic.twitter.com/3A1kyulxpQ— Letters of Note (@LettersOfNote) September 13, 2023

4 hidden events in your calendar: pic.twitter.com/7gVX2uahYm— Janis Ozolins (@OzolinsJanis) January 14, 2022

This dude is amazing to me. Just turns on the camera for a few minutes and talks about the viral topic of the day. No editing, minimal effort on title & thumbnail. 1-5M views per video. 1-2x per day. He beat the system.

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." —Dorothy Parker pic.twitter.com/HqHo2CNZNY— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) August 12, 2023

““Creativity happens when other variables are predictable.””

“The Pocket Guide of Essential @ycombinator Advice”

“Just stop drinking”

“got a DM from an artist asking for advice because art isn’t selling as much these days thought my response might be useful to other artists as well”

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“If there's one thing I've learned in business over the last 25 years, it's this: Every difficult decision would have been easier had I made it earlier.”

“The origin of good ideas according to @tferriss: 1. What are the nerds doing at night and on weekends 2. What are rich people doing now, that everyone might be doing 10 years from now? 3. Where are people cobbling together awkward solutions. pure gold.”

“@EricJorgenson Unpublished essay I have: Treadmill Friends vs Sofa Friends 1. Treadmill Friends - After hanging out with them, you have so much energy that you want to run on a treadmill to calm down. 2. Sofa friends - After hanging out with them, you are drained that you want to lie on a…”

““I'm often asked: How can you trust people so much? Because that's the only way it works.” ⁦@amandapalmer⁩”

“A violinist played for 45 minutes in a New York subway. A handful of people stopped, a couple clapped, and the violinist managed to raise about $30 in tips. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. In that subway, Joshua…”

“When young founders build something that they don't want themselves but that they believe some group of other people want, 90% of the time they're building something no one wants.”

“Here's a big list of things that don't seem to work, based on the last 20 years of running Tiny: • Giving an advisor or advisory board free equity to advise a CEO without putting any real skin in the game and investing their own money (they usually go "thanks for the free…”