Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Brad Barrish
I love the idea of building a world, not an audience. I just discovered Kening Zhu via Rachel Kwon.
From Adam Grant’s book, Think Again.
Big or small, old or new — or even hardware or software. It’s always true: underpromising and overdelivering is always the path to delight, but also always devilishly difficult to pull off. That’s the game.
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Hardware is hard and Experience is everything
Leave it to Gruber to say this in a way that just lands. Eric’s tweet was also great.
Never Post
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Very Online People and Web Ex Point Oh
I am very excited about this podcast (h/t Andy Baio)
From Richard Feynman’s 1974 commencement address at CalTech. It’s pretty amazing how relevant this still is, perhaps even more so!
To really like my work I have to look at it with different eyes. I have to forget everyone who did it better or faster, and remind myself that no one has ever done it quite the way I have. I have to remind myself that the people I compare myself to probably compare themselves to others and that if they let their self-doubt keep them from creating I... See more
Jenny Lawson (thebloggess) • Trial and error and error and error.
I read nearly every post from Jon Haidt’s After Babel, but a recent one entitled “Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus” really helped deepen my understanding of how we got to where we are now as it relates to anti-Semitism. It feels especially important as a parent of young children to understand “common enemy identity politics” vs. “common humanity identity politics” so we can identify it and discuss it more effectively with our kids and community.
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
theverge.comThis is great. So well done. I have unpublished thoughts about Twitter’s demise and what it means for the future of social.