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The hardest part of wintering: looking like you failed.

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Hottest of hot takes: only people who deeply give a fuck about the thing should run companies that make the thing. Cheeseburgers, software, doesn't matter. If your Steam library is empty, you don't get to run a games studio.

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PSA “community-led” means there’s no budget and you’ll be blamed when it fails

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Every era invents a new reason why the old rules don’t apply. Then the old rules apply anyway.

Tulips. Railroads. Radio. Dot-com. Housing. JPEGs. AI.

Different costumes // same brain.

The most expensive sentence in history is: “This time is different.”

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-loop-everything-has-happened-before-and-everything-will-happen-again/

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Nothing makes you sound more like a Beltway ghoul than saying “this won’t play well in the Midwest” about basic human rights

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life hack: if you microwave a hot pocket for 666 seconds it opens a portal to your old facebook statuses and the demon of middle school regret climbs out to critique your posture.

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Every "founder mode" essay is a man realising he's difficult to work for and deciding to publish an 8,000 word manifesto about why that actually makes him a Very Special Boy

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You: “holy shit I’m running 20 agents overnight”

Schulmeister:

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Holy shit I just found out how the sausage gets made

Why didn’t anybody tell me

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Every time a billionaire says "it's time to build" I want to drop him in a Bunnings at 11am on a Saturday and see how long he lasts before crying in the paint aisle

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The internet was a mistake and I say this as someone whose entire livelihood depends on the mistake being ongoing

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Meghan McCain has built an entire media career on the foundational premise that her father existed and frankly get it girl (don't in fact get it girl)

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Jake, 24, said buying in Sydney wasn't that hard. "I cut down on avocado toast, walked to work, and my grandmother passed away leaving me $1.2 million in a trust. Anyone can do it if they really want to." This story sponsored by news dot com dot au.

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Close the tabs. Do the thing.

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We built an entire civilisation around the idea that more information would make us wiser.

We have more information than any humans who ever lived.

We are not wiser.

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