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"A common source of uninformed despair is when a too-brief effort doesn't bring a desired result"

Visual Inspiration

Product Inspiration

Sora

Ok it's not a product yet, but it will be and I'm more excited about this than the text and image generators that have come before it. Certainly this will change a lot of things, good and bad. The barrier to creating great video like this is just so much higher than images and text.

Human Inspiration

Lenny Rachitsky

There is perhaps no better example of the niche creator economy than Lenny. From newsletter -> podcast -> production company -> author. Impressive.

Music Inspiration

Little Simz

I became aware of Little Simz in 2021 but never went deep into the catalogue. This album is a stripped back, raw and brilliant piece of UK hop hop.

Seeya 👋

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Reading DOC • Story of a buttonNavigating change and finding your click.Francesco PiniIn Search of Organic SoftwareSo over the last couple weeks, I’ve been talking to VCs and founders who have and haven’t taken VC to learn whether it makes sense for Kinopio. I don’t think it

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Basement Files 77

Reading The World Without UsA penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth …GoodreadsAlan WeismanBad Monkey (Andrew Yancy, #1)Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning …GoodreadsCarl Hiaasen Using A surprisingly fun "data set guesser", a quirky 'one time' website, lo-fi typeface and a

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Reading JamesA brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventure…GoodreadsPercival EverettAristotle — How to live a good life - Ralph Ammer2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life.Ralph Ammerralphammer Anxiety and excitement are the same emotion in different

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Basement Files 75

Looking Reading Learning By WritingAn outline of how I form detailed opinions on topics: by exploring hypotheses and writing about them, not by undirected reading.Cold TakesHolden KarnofskyUp and Down the Ladder of AbstractionEverything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processThe context is smarter than