Raw Material Inventory

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This could be cool.

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Reuters: Binance's books are a black box, filings show, as it tries to rally confidence 

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ASML: advancing semiconductor chips

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TechCrunch: Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko talks funding and how to build the anti-Twitter 

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NYT: ChatGPT and Other Chat Bots Are a ‘Code Red’ for Google Search

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I like life.

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Get me back. I don’t care what happens to me.

Please. I want to live again.

Remember no man is a failure who has friends.

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Because ‘to know about something’ isn’t the same as ‘knowing something’.

The Collector’s Fallacy • Zettelkasten Method

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I keep making people at Amplifier and elsewhere rewatch this scene.

Note two key moments.

1.

Flight director: That’s the deal?  Engineer: That’s the deal.

Accept the reality of your constraint.

In their case, battery power could not be expanded, whereas companies typically can grow revenue. Know your constraint. Manage capacity; add power.

2.

Astronaut: It’s all in the sequencing, John. If we can skip whatever we don’t absolutely need and turn things on in the right order, maybe.. Engineer: I agree.

Relentlessly face reality and ruthlessly prioritize.  It’s all in the sequencing. That’s the deal. In all weather, and especially when tailwinds shift to headwinds out there.

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I’ve steadily built a list of music videos shot in Austin that feature the town (and not just the inside of one venue). 

“Rock the Casbah” (1981) is a great first entry here.

Also check this excellent 2014 post by Adam Norwood. It might be time to update the comparison photos as 8 or 9 years have passed since he did this.

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a latticework of mental models

I learned about Samir Patel from one of the Regulars, who I believe raised money for him.

Here he quotes Charlie Munger:

What you need is a latticework of mental models in your head.  And, with that system, things gradually get to fit together in a way that enhances cognition.The Latticework of Mental Models - Poor Ash's Almanack (by Askeladden Capital)

Munger’s classic, and Patel redefines prolific.

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So you think you know how it all works and what happens next? We’ll see.

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Are you committed, or are you saving anything for the swim back?

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I will also inventory favorite movie scenes here over time under the tag “favorite scenes.”

Often, the scenes depict useful metaphors.

Sometimes, they’re motivating or affecting or at least just fun or cool.

Some embeds inevitably will eventually fail as studios remove them or whatever. We’ll see.

Spoiler alert -- obviously, if you haven’t yet seen the movie cited and you want to preserve a clean first-time experience, just don’t hit play on the scene.

Over time, I expect I’ll embed some of these in longer posts elsewhere, but this place is for gathering and organizing the raw materials, so here goes.

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I’ve practiced GTD for many years, and it means a lot that David Allen would embrace Holacracy. He even wrote the foreword to the book. Amplifier is now a holacratic organization, and we are digging it.