Coleman McCormick

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what if barry bonds had played his legendary 2004 season without a bat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMfT2cZGHg

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Specialization is for insects

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T.S. Eliot: cultures stack in pace layers

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I could look at boat plans all day

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Composability drives all adaptive durable systems – biology, technology, software, ideas, art Parts find fitness for a function and combined into assemblies to make new things Remix, adapt, reuse

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"great artists steal" was picasso's line It's more than art — all forms of tacit knowledge begin with imitation There's no shame in copying, it's part of the journey toward finding originality https://www.resextensa.co/p/copy-first-create-later

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"Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them." —Alfred North Whitehead Building a habit is like baking a routine into firmware — one that we can process with low energy and low input https://www.resextensa.co/p/how-habits-are-like-firmware

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Either the pond by my kids' school, or the Scottish moors (if there were palm trees)

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Eerie early morning

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On combining product-led growth + sales https://buildblocks.substack.com/p/product-led-sales

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Went out to do 10 this weekend, decided to go the half

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Nearly finished with book 2 in the @farcaster origin series

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Goodhart's law, visualized

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Orson Welles on director Jean Renoir, 1979 "When we strain for perfect clarity, what we finally achieve is perfectly banal. That, he was sure, was the real trouble with Hollywood: Not that it worshiped money, but something much worse—that it worshiped an ideal of so-called perfection." https://www.wellesnet.com/thanksgiving-treat-orson-welles-on-jean-renoir/

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We get creativity and innovation in places where existing ideas mix, combine, and evolve together https://www.resextensa.co/p/mixing-zones-and-creativity

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I knew I used wikipedia constantly, but wouldn't have guessed like this Also "read" articles is a bit overstated

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with the AI dev infrastructure, constraints are shifting teams will be held back by lack of good ideas, discomfort with the speed of trial and error, distribution not costs, headcounts, or tools

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On curating composable ideas with Obsidian Mixing, stacking, and repurposing thoughts to generate new ones https://www.resextensa.co/p/composable-ideas

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Time for a re-read

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Always glad when he gets the W

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