Aki Colovic

I love building things and leading teams

[Peter Kolchinsky @PeterKolchinsky]

While not technically alive, there's an evil genius to viruses that never ceases to amaze me. It's one reason I became a virologist. A recent Nature paper reveal a remarkable trick SARS-Cov-2 learned that makes it nastier than the first SARS. Both viruses…

[David Perell @david_perell]

Everybody's talking about remote work.

Here are 10 ideas for being a happier, healthier, and more productive remote worker.

1. Communicate in long-form: Most companies do too much messaging and not enough long-form writing. Communicate less often, but with much more rigor.

[David Perell @david_perell]

"Anybody who doesn’t change their mind a lot is dramatically underestimating the complexity of the world we live in.”

— Jeff Bezos

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

[Sam Altman @sama]

If you notice something at your company below standards and don't fix it or make sure someone else does, you have set a new standard.

Complaining about it does not count as fixing it.

If someone gets upset/tells you to stay in your lane, they've set an even worse new standard.

[Allison Chang @allisonmchang]

"The first rule of survival is clear: nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success."

[Johann Hari @johannhari101]

It's more than 15 years since Portugal decriminalised all drugs, & transferred all the money they used to spend on shaming, arresting & punishing ppl with addictions, into turning their lives around. The result? Huge fall in addictions, injecting drug use, & overdose deaths.

[9GAG ❤️ Memeland @9GAG]

Time for the world to know where Croatia is on the map
#worldcup #worldcup2018 #england #croatia

[Aki Colovic @akicolovic]

Sorry Henrik, but The Agile Bicycle is a better analogy - https://t.co/b0M3jigW7Y

[Aki Colovic @akicolovic]

Loved Sam’s list of productivity tips. Lots of actionable items to experiment with! https://t.co/exGzLIemIX

[Sam Altman @sama]

Productivity: https://t.co/zbhmaZqExu

[Naval @naval]

Persistence is paramount on the long road to product-market fit.

Partners disappoint. Customers delay. Growth stalls. Passions fade.

Loyalty to each other gets the team to the other side.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Demanding proof stalls creativity. New ideas need room to breathe, and a good imagination will always be ahead of the best evidence.
https://t.co/vfKSSWkrC0

[Naval @naval]

Walking meetings:
- Brain works better
- Exercise & sunlight
- Shorter, less pleasantries
- More dialogue, less monologue
- No slides
- End easily by walking back

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This is the discussion in Antifragile about "academic" discoveries that were in fact made by practitioners.

[Casey Neistat @Casey]

take a second. read this bullshit https://t.co/eAYUjgkM0Y

[David Robinson @drob]

Wow- NLP analysis discovers more than a million fake anti-net-neutrality comments. Brilliant data science detective work by @thisismetis student Jeff Kao. https://t.co/p9vooF5GPd #datablog

[Sam Newman @samnewman]

I find the fact that people now say “serverless” when they mean “Function as a service” to be very annoying

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you have any talent, any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why or what difficulties you may get into.