
68: Rules Aren't Real 📐
Dispensing with the status quo is the key to escaping mediocrity.
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Dispensing with the status quo is the key to escaping mediocrity.
In one morning I came across three stories that made me think twice about the ‘metaverse’. It’s not some
Sometimes in order to win the game you're optimising for, you must lose the ones you've been told were important.
How often do you revisit ideas you believe to be common sense? When thinking of possible ways we could develop
People become great by being creative within the boundaries and persisting when others might quit.
Sometimes you will be out in the field, pushing the limits of expectation, on the verge of changing the world,
Brandon Sanderson is one of my favourite authors. If he writes something I’m going to eat it up. But
Whenever words are carried by saltine winds over vast expanses of water, they somehow gain the magical property of resonating
No one human knows how to make a pencil from scratch despite it seeming like a fundamentally basic thing -
The Sword of Damocles has become synonymous with imminent danger and the threat of sudden calamity - but that’s
It took fifty miles of cycling and the best part of a thousand pounds to reach Senegal. I rode with
What the heck is an impostor anyway? Someone who is not supposed to be there. An impersonator. A copycat. A