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Silicon Valley venture capitalists develop the lean startup “release early, release often” mantra as a way to de-risk investments and avoid investing significant capital without gauging market demand, resulting in narrowing / more incremental innovation. Individual creatives might bias towards smaller projects to de-risk the possibility of inv

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I didn't realize that the reason we nerds didn't fit in was that in some ways we were a step ahead. We were already thinking about the kind of things that matter in the real world, instead of spending all our time playing an exacting but mostly pointless game like the others.

Why is it conventional to pretend to like what you do? The first sentence of this essay explains that. If you have to like something to do it well, then the most successful people will all like what they do. That's where the upper-middle class tradition comes from.

this is why I am not afraid of AI excerpt from David Reed’s book on improvisation https://t.co/ygTqEqe8I7

Paul Graham (@paulg) on how to do great work. I used to be stuck at the third point a lot and reading this helped me immensely. https://t.co/qaZt7VsVVY