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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Some photos I took from long ago

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It’s not just the product decisions - (at least product gives you the illusion that what you decide has correlation so you can sleep better at night) and that still can’t be replicated But it’s not just the product. Its the time, it’s their lives, It’s the people that build it, the people that use it, the education they got, the love they gave, the geopolitics, the wars, what they ate for breakfast, how their mom was to their childhood dog, their first heart break, the time their grandma passed And then it hits you —- you have no control over… any of this for your customer. Almost None. which leads to… do whatever the hell you believe is best

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Perspectives are interesting I’m often fascinated by how different people with different backgrounds will take the same event that takes place and see it and interpret through a different lens. The lens is an accumulation who you are (nature) but also a sediment of what you’ve experienced and who you’ve become over time (both positive experiences and also often trauma)

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It’s like when you run into a personal crisis: - nothing matters burn it all down - everything matters the only way is through

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“The most attractive works of art are those which give us the illusion that the artist had no alternatives” - Susan Sontag, On Style

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I couldn’t fit the whole excel spreadsheet of books that are in progress

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That reminds me I need to go surf

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The current Farcaster experience: Good: bots and spam get removed from network, there's less spam overall, leads to better interactions, trustable Bad: people care about their follow counts whether they admitted or not -- it's hard to trust your follower count if they keep going up and down randomly, but mostly down

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I think it was Pixar directors who ran a critique for their film had this rule when critiquing movies in development, they would offer pain points or problems (not solutions) - i.e. their feedback would be "I don't like the way this character meets this other character" and would not offer a 'solution' on how the characters would meet I thought this was interesting - why? Because ultimately the director that was working on the movie themselves would know the potential solution the best. I think this also generally works great with engineering as well. As a manager, you don't really offer the solution, you identify areas that aren't working because engineers on the task usually know the system significantly better that you do the higher up you go

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Reminds me of the EE Cummings Poet's Advice: "As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time-and whenever we do it, we’re not poets. If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you’ve written one line of one poem, you’ll be very lucky indeed. And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world-unless you’re not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die."

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“After working on the Manhattan Project: I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but I felt very strongly then. I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth... How far from here was 34th street?... All those buildings, all smashed - and so on. And I would go along and I would see people building a bridge, or they'd be making a new road, and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless. But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So l've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead." - Richard P. Feynman

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I resonate strongly with a small group of people on a day to day basis out of everyone I meet It’s interesting that who I resonate with is different from who you resonate with; and maybe there’s large overlap, maybe there’s a small overlap, maybe there’s not who knows What’s interesting about that is just because I don’t resonate with them doesn’t mean that they’re not interesting people for other people

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There is section from Agua Viva that goes: "Because at five in the morning today July 25th, I fell into a state of grace. It was a sudden sensation but so gentle.... the state of grace which i'm speaking is not used for anyhting. It's as if it came only for us to know that we really exists and the world exists. in this state, beyond the calm happiness that irradiates from people and things there is a lucidity that I only call weightless because everything in grace is light" No wonder there's such a connection between Agua Viva <=> And gravity and grace. They are talking about such similar things from different gview points. One from a more literary perspective (lispector), the other from a more philosophical perspective (weil)

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Some non-western centric book recommendations:

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Just finished Água Viva, here are some thoughts: Really great book. I read it slowly. I savored it. Didn't want it to end. Slowly. Reminded me a lot of Passion According to G.H. It's probably because it is the same author. Let me talk a bit about what it feels like for a bit Pure Lispector. Wandering, intense, existential, full of Eros, and violence of the mind. The words are beautiful. I frequently found myself reading it more like poetry. Savouring words, not reading quickly (it's short 80 pages or so) and you just read it, sit with it, live with it, shoot arrows, drink milk, wash your hands, do all the normal things people do. It's the kind of book that wedges into spaces in your life that is absent minded. It's almost a lot more unconscious than it is conscious Great book - it had a lot of great lines, great paragraphs, great words. It's not a book that's for everyone. If I had read it 5 years ago - I'd dismissed this book as being complete and utter gibberish. Yeah, that's just how it goes

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Someone build a maps app where you input a destination and it doesn’t give you how long or how to get there It just tells you the journey is the destination and then leaves

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“True thought seems to have no author” Agua Viva, Clarice Lispector

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