on building things
beautiful things don't ask for attention
My job is not to think about what exists but rather what I want that does not yet exist.
Lessons I'm still learning
In the most simple terms possible: a good quest makes the future better than our world today, while a bad quest doesn't improve the world much at all, or even makes it worse.
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Every “overnight success” is the result of years of thankless work. Success comes not from great acts of genius but from doing lots of small things consistently
23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The
When it feels like nothing is happening, that’s when everything is about to happen. Don’t get so used to chaos that peace feels like something’s wrong
Brianna W
Your success here will depend entirely on how successfully you can tell stories, and how successfully other people can repeat those stories, both to themselves and others.Your North Star here has to be: are other people retelling this story successfully?Port cities around the world are more similar to each other than they are to their inland counte... See more