was at Greylock Partners https://kwokchain.com/ (more)

engineering mgr, blogger (zettelkasten style)

Mike Crittenden on Skill stacking. Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, wrote about how to reach the top: If you want to be extraordinary, you have two paths: (more)

With sales momentum, Bookshop.org looks to future in its fight with Amazon. With book sales booming during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, the humble written word has suddenly drawn the limelight from VCs and founders. We’ve seen a whole cavalcade of new products and fundings, including algorithmic recommendation engine BingeBooks, book club startups like Literati and the aptly named BookClub, as well as streaming service Litnerd. There have also been exits and potential exits for Glose, LitCharts and Epic. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 9/09: Passing the Peak. Labor day muddies the data a bit, but it seems that Alex Tabarrok was correct and the current wave has peaked (more)

movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189584/?ref_=tt_ch (more)

see Dialogue, Conversation Theory, Two Way Web, Markets Are Conversations, Communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation (more)

Alexander Technique coach/writer

Venkatesh Rao on potential for a network economy of clusters of free agents. Now that I’m actually consciously trying, I think what actually held me back is sheer lack of even the most basic infrastructure. Even just a few months in, the Yak Collective experiment is revealing just how enormous the potential is if we can get the infrastructure right. (more)

Person working independently: contractor, freelancer, consultant, etc. (more)

The Yak Collective is a network of over 300 independent consultants, coaches, and freelancers with varied technical and creative skills. https://www.yakcollective.org/ (more)

Rands in Repose: The Builder’s High. When I am in a foul mood, I have a surefire way to improve my outlook – I build something. (more)

Improving saves from Twitter and YouTube (in Instapaper). When you save any tweet (even if you’re mid-thread), Instapaper will pull the tweet and thread into an article that you can easily read, highlight, and take notes on

Mike Crittenden: Blogging as a Zettelkasten. In mid-2020 I tried to build up a private Zettelkasten, but it felt like a chore (more)

Gordon Brander: Getting lost in the land of ideas. Spaced-repetition (SRS) is designed to program convergence — specifically memorization. A creative oracle is a tool designed to program divergence. (more)

Mike Crittenden: Write 5x more but write 5x less. *There are 2 things I have come to believe about writing: (more)

Gordon Brander: Notes are conversations across time. (more)

Gordon Brander: Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile? This is a question about two different disruptions: Why did the web disrupt desktop? (Personal computers → networked computers) Why didn’t the web disrupt mobile? (Networked computers → computers with you everywhere) (more)

Michael Ashcroft: How to be Superman. Both Christopher Reeve and Keanu Reeves studied something called Alexander Technique. This is how Clark Kent becomes Superman and how Mr Anderson becomes The One. (more)

Tim Carmody: What Could E-Bookstores Be Like? ...an interview with Bookshop.org’s Andy Hunter (2021-09-12-WithSalesMomentumBookshoporgLooksToFutureInItsFightWithAmazon) (more)