Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Companion presentation deck to Ribbonfarm's six part newsletter series on emergent management practice, lorecraft.
Venkatesh Rao • On Lore
People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."
Monopolies are bad. Violence is bad. Monopolies on violence turn out to be one of the best ideas ever. Go figure. #ThinkingIsHard
Macro patience, micro speed.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Product is merit and distribution is connections -
Tim Ferriss • #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
Create choices, not recommendations.
Venkatesh Rao • The Art of Gig, Volume 1
Good protocols, in short, manage to catalyze good enough outcomes with respect to a variety of contending criteria, via surprisingly limited and compact interventions.