Good tokens 2024-12-20

Worth your time

Boris planning

Many wonderful public servants made valiant efforts and scored some great wins, but Democratic leadership did not make it a top priority to clear out the underbrush that jams the gears of government.

From Bringing Elon to a knife fight

New rules for media; from #19:

Every second for the viewer is just that viral video where the person picks between two pop stars. You’re always deciding what to pay attention to. The relationship between person-who-makes and person-who-consumes is paramount to long-term success, because if you are winning that game then you will be able to survive.

Things I learned

Eyes have evolved more than 50 times - Salon via Rohit

Musings

You can only avoid competition by avoiding good ideas. — Paul Graham

Product market fit provides a business with gravity
- It lets you know up from down — this helps
- But it also weighs on you; it’s tough to take the business in a direction that your current product / market / customer isn’t pulling you

A key skill for the future is going to be how to work with something that is:
1. smarter than you in many / most domains
2. sometimes wrong

A surprising amount of life is figuring out the right words to say in order to get what you want

2024-12-20