Zach Kirshner
@zachkirshner
forever flow
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Embrace constraints
Jason Fried • Rework
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when the problem seems to come from the evolved shape of the machinery, rather from there being too little machinery, or bad specific content; then we call that a bias.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
A clear argument has to lay out an inferential pathway, starting from what the audience already knows or accepts. If you don’t recurse far enough, you’re just talking to yourself.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
ASAP is poison
Jason Fried • Rework
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On lucky occasions, you’ll meet someone who just gets it . They pick up on your subtle hints and drop you some of their own. They understand the games of life, and are often very good at them. They are rabidly curious, sharply witty, and brightly playful. This person is lucid .
Leber • On lucidity
qualities of inexhaustible relationship material
Citizens
Mary Beard • SPQR
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Zhuangzi, a proto-Daoist philosophical text, that says: “The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you’ve gotten the fish, you can forget the trap.”