Patrick McKenzie: Internet Famous
[Don't use the incentive structures of ad-driven media outlets to influence your own writing. People may have more time and attention in your context.]
Patrick McKenzie: Internet Famous
[Don't use the incentive structures of ad-driven media outlets to influence your own writing. People may have more time and attention in your context.]
Jeff Morris Jr on Investing In Product Companies
[A lot of people use Tinder just to see who likes them back because it's like a game.]
[If you buy Tinder boost it shouldn't feel like Google Adwords, so we created superpower-like animations to make it feel like a special moment in art or NBA Allstars.]
[Most people would say that they let me invest because they wanted me to help with product, so I decided to re-brand the fund as product-focused and I would be the product person on yor cap sheet.]
[We chose TikTok influencers over Silicon Valley investors because we knew our product worked and needed an audience, distribution.]
[Why shit on the city where you grew up and received many opportunities?]
Phil Libin: Find a new way to ski
[You know everything's going right when it had nothing to do with you.]
Let's talk about Duckworth, Walsh, and systemic issues....
[If you're complaining about diversity quotas, you are the reason they exist.]
[Talk to people. It's never a bad time to talk to customers or prospects if you're having high-bandwidth conversations with them about their problems, desires, or what they need.]
[Knowing how to cook is a friend catcher.]
[Problem-solving is a friendcatcher. When you solve people's problems, they come to you with their problems.]
[A friendcatcher is resonant, tractable, and underserved.]
[The email subject is the promise: overdeliver in the body.]
[When someone first pays, they probably are more motivated than normal, the iron is hot so take advantage, you can reach out more then and then cool off later.]
[Don't start the work of a SAAS company until you've had 10-25 conversations.]
[Have 10 commits to buy before launch.]
[There will probably be 1 primary thing and 2 secondary objectives during any week. One of those should be 'talking to people' and another should be 'less interesting but necessary'.]
[Being able to credibly say 'this is what I do' builds trust.]
[You can be unreasonably good at what you do, irrationally responsive to customers.]
[Move fast and make things.]
[Price tiers are a way for customers to acknowledge they are getting outstanding value, you can ask them why, this can tell you what to build next.]
[Trolling is posting where the reaction is the content.]
[The real hallmark of abundance is variety not quantity.]
[Facebook's real product is the ability to find lookalike customers: turn this audience of 10 into 1000 that are similar.]
[Kids understand systems well because because they don't think in terms of cause and effect: they look around and make things.]
[Silicon Valley wins because it is a culture that values building over solving problems.]
Let's talk about Biden's mental state....
[In the face of a wild accusation that's false, try leaning into it: isn't it great that a team of experts rather than a politician is making decision? If the vice president has the final call, it must be terrible for Trump. Can you imagine how bad it must have been that we elected a guy with dementia?]
Baremetrics Founder Josh Pigford on Side Projects and Growing a $1 Million SaaS Startup
[If they're not paying, their feedback will likely be that of someone trying to get something for nothing as opposed to those who value the offering.]
Time-based notes with Alexander Griekspoor
[Despite having training materials and support, people generally learn the tool socially.]
[Build community forum posting into the app.]
[Ask people to describe their workflows.]
['Identity theft' is favourable because it absolves institutions of their responsibility to secure their authentication systems.]
[Start out by not letting anyone touch it without being there to show how it works. First give a demo to let them see what they can do with the product, then guide them while they try it for themselves.]
[Help provide context and help them understand why they should care.]
Let's talk about how "canceling" isn't new....
[Conservative views getting squeezed out of social media is american capitalism: companies side with the larger market and the younger generation is more profitable than the older one.]
Let's talk about how to teach or learn history....
[History books often focus on who, what, when, where, leaving out the why, which is the most interesting part.]
[Understand the whys of yesterday so that the motives of tomorrow make more sense.]
false collectives: fake activisim and social media
[Facebook's algorithm gives prominence to the 2% of Mother Jones that favours the GOP and Fox News making it seem like it's 50% of their content.]
Keys to Beyond: What is time? What is 'an organism"?
[We are not just connected as people, or as a species, or as living beings, or as nature itself: we are connected to everything and everything is one. Our ideas of connectedness and separation are damaged by what culture teaches us to believe about ourselves.]
[When the human species was learning language, they were imitating something far greater than what we have now, in the same way that a baby imitates it parents.]
[Science has no voice and tells us nothing. Scientists are who we listen to.]
[Not from our separate experiences but from our 'unique' experiences.]
[The concept of human years doesn't take into account the cumulative years of all humans, the temporal relation between one human and the others, the time experience of individual cells that multiply during the passing of time itself. You are older than any number humanity has ever tried to imagine or is even capable of exploring.]
[Physical objects are exactly how old we say they are because they are not relational. Humans are not objects and will never be objects. Machines have nothing in common with us.]
[The metaphors used in technology are broken. Don't use the language or the words.]
[The internet, the smartphone, the watch, the calendar, the car, are all representations of something innate that you will never see once you commit to using its representation.]
[In order to follow these keys out of our cages, we need to dissolve representations instead of talking about it or writing books.]
[Representations via human culture are crippling. They are broken toys designed to trap you and replicate then, convert others to believe the same thing.]
[Nature has no purpose: it creates purposes continuously by existing. If you have a purpose, you are dead.]
[Humans build representations, burn down nature, and worship what they created.]
[Instead of allowing authority to stand above you, lift nature above you and look up.]
[If you like something, go and become that. Know beforehand whether you are jumping into water or fire. If you are a good swimmer, jump into the water. If you are strong enough to avoid burn, jump into the fire. But don't jump into the fire and say it burns.]
[Use imagery to project a mood or vibe: calm, simple, fundamental.]
Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna
[Instead of having ride data siloed inside Uber or Lyft, let it be part of a commons so that local governments can use the data to aid city planning.]
Building an Open-Source Publishing Platform That Makes $63,000/mo
[You will always get more of what you already have.]
Aliens, insects, and an operating system that works like our minds
[Insects are completely involved in their experience of being alive.]
[It's ironic that we destroy our planet to create rockets that enable us to search for non-human life in space when there is more non-human life here on earth than we have imagined to be anywhere in space.]
[People going around telling each other about bad news, terrifying futures, incredible problems doesn't solve the problem and is debilitating those who are subjected to it. It's just 'sharing the damage'.]
[The vetting sentinel analyzes every media item and exposes agendas, biases, stakeholders.]
[Gamification of social activism.]
[In the way that Cain kills Abel and exiles him to an underworld, in our childhood we are subdued by a dominating linguistic authority that re-defines our notions of what it means to live and exist.]