Tejas Gawande
@tejas
Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
Tejas Gawande
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Obsession > Talent
We tend to worship inventors and originators, designers who were trailblazing and innovative. And we copy them.
This oxymoron of a craft can drive a person crazy. There’s lots of space between originality and industry, authorship and acknowledgement, riffing and ripping. I wrote this very short book to explore that space.
Some people have been frus... See more
This oxymoron of a craft can drive a person crazy. There’s lots of space between originality and industry, authorship and acknowledgement, riffing and ripping. I wrote this very short book to explore that space.
Some people have been frus... See more
Copying is the way design works
Great artists steal
Don't forget to make the ordinary come alive
A lot of care went into curating the environment around the children—fascinating guests were invited, libraries were built, machines were brought home and disassembled—but the children were left with a lot of time to freely explore the interests that arose within these milieus.
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See more
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See more
Childhoods of Exceptional People
Exception people in their childhood had time to roam about and relied heavily on self-directed learning
How to Use AI to Find Profitable Niches on the Internet
Brainstorming with AI
“Strategy salons” or “nerd clubs” can be powerful tools for generating ideas and fostering innovation. Use your nerd club as a safe space to explore half-formed ideas. Limit it to a few engaged individuals who genuinely want to participate. Set ground rules for discussions, like using “yes, and” to build on ideas and leaving negative feedback aside... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconve…
Nerd club as a safe space to explore half-formed ideas
"You can make anything by writing." — C.S. Lewis
Anu • Writer-Builders
At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.
Childhoods of Exceptional People
Exception people did some kind of cognitive apprenticeships in their teenage.
Ideas in your zone of genius