Dustin works on Hyperfiddle and Electric Clojure.
https://www.dustingetz.com/#/page/643ed908-e454-4fe8-9ac4-010041d63d1c
Opportunity is the space between your competitors’ assumptions
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Intuition is the antonym of reason
Agreed. But I wonder whether those terms are meant to be value-laden. Is one better than the other?
I would say quite strongly no.
Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is just an opinion
Oooooh. So theory needs to be composed out of numbers?
(Interlude - I feel myself actively trying to find holes right now. Not out of malice, but out of curiosity and ambition)
I think David Deutsch would disagree.
Though if we substitute “numbers” for “objectively falsifiable theory and observation”, I’m inclined to agree.
Being understood is too big an ask because it requires controlling the other person’s perspective. Try instead to communicate
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Communication usually fails, except by accident
🤔 I think this one might be right.
Related:
You Can’t Tell People Anything (you have to show them)
:) I think https://electric-examples-app.fly.dev/ is a GREAT example of this principle applied.
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
Agreed. Your habits set your baseline. Habits ~ system.
Also, this is psychologically safe, and protects against burnout. If you’re feeling bad, just don’t destroy your systems+habits today. That’s enough. You can be exceptional later.
The goal is not to avoid mistakes; the goal is to achieve uncorrelated levels of excellence in some dimension — Nat Friedman
I have no idea what Dustin/Nat mean by “uncorrelated levels of excellence in some dimension”. Uncorrelated -> cosine similarity is 0, so that each “axis” of excellence is independent? Not sure.
Though I’d guess that it’s about
But then, why “in some dimension”?
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. — Muhammad Ali
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Climb that mountain! Prove them wrong!
If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be entirely comprehensible to a single individual. Human potential manifests in individuals. — Dan Ingalls
Hmm. I think I agree with this one. Yet, I don’t think I completely understand it. Nor have I internalized it.
Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them
Yes! This is a Karl Popper quote, right?
13:59 edit: no! It’s Alfred North Whitehead.