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Anxiety and excitement are the same emotion in different fonts. One has a view that's focused on what can go wrong - the other is focused on what can go right.

Too often, we aim for overly polite discussions, avoiding any real challenge to ideas. But avoiding conflict isn’t the way to build better products. When we argue, we’re forced to defend our ideas.

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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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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

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The great enemy of writing isn’t your lack of talent, it’s being interrupted by other people. 👀 Looking 📚 Reading The TreesWhen a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau o…GoodreadsPercival EverettErasureThelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to def…GoodreadsPercival Everett 💭 Thinking Once you are feeling attacked or

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