Andrew Wight

Social Impact Entrepreneur | Co-founder of | Climate enthusiast | Optimist

[Andrew Wight @AndrewUX]

The fact that this is sensible, inevitable, and the way forward for medical procedures doesn't reduce any of the horror of watching a human being operated on by a machine. It's like 1984 meets the dentist.

https://t.co/5YQWhaYYac

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I have a lot of theories about how despair goes viral in English speaking places. I’ll just share this tidbit, from an analysis of 170 years of American news coverage.

We really are living in an era of negativity-poisoned discourse that is (*empirically*) historically unique.

[Darren Rogan @darrenrogan]

I see this so much

[Andrew Wight @AndrewUX]

Long live the imposters!

[Darren Rogan @darrenrogan]

Every so often I write down some of my experiences, startups and programs.

Then read it, and think who is this guy. I just gave myself imposter syndrome.

With a valid question, where is your lambo?
> I got wiped out and had to start again.

I have failed more than most people even try, but I’ve also had successes and Im a better entrepreneur everyday.

We all have imposter syndrome!

[Andrew Wight @AndrewUX]

100% agree!

[DHH @dhh]

No joke, when I'm on Windows, the app I miss the most from macOS in daily running is Preview! The native speed and handling of PDFs is something you can easily take for granted. Windows doesn't have it. Best I've found is PDF X and that ain't no Preview.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

We've already used 17% of 2024.

[Andrew Wight @AndrewUX]

@darrenrogan Absolutely - it artificially polarises everything and reduces the resolution of any problem down to 1 bit.

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

"If you disappear for a year, when you come back, the world hasn’t ’moved on’ as much as you thought it would"

one of many gems here

https://t.co/rQJrnN0S3N

[Darren Rogan @darrenrogan]

Gm gm,

just a reminder that what people project isn’t reality.

[Andrew Wight @AndrewUX]

I think I got distracted by the dancing, but I stared at this like a magic eye picture for a about 30 seconds before I got it!

[Darren Rogan @darrenrogan]

This cracked me up 😂

[Andrew Wight @AndrewUX]

I find great comfort in the fact that I'm not the only manchild who thinks this sounds like the perfect day.

[Sam Altman @sama]

you are listening to the new blink 182 album for the 17th time today and about to play the new mario with your friends who brought over mountain dew.

you ordered dominos with a discount code your mom gave you, $10/pizza.

the year is 2023, and you are 38 years old. life is good

[Andrew Wight @AndrewUX]

@darrenrogan Yup - not only am I well past this illusion myself, I'm now probably the "adult" that others are realising does not in any way have it together!

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

I wonder if one day there will be media nutritionists

Where you hand over your media history and they tell you how to improve it to reduce ignorance and outrage and to inspire.

Kids- Just say no to TikTok
Adults - keep your tv news below 10 mins daily
Etc

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

Every day on social media I'm reminded that only a small fraction of people seem able to understand the idea of tradeoffs.

The question is almost never, is X a nice thing to do.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

The long game is less crowded.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

Is anyone in European government ashamed and embarrassed about the cookie banner thing?

[Andrew Wight @AndrewUX]

This is even more true for Australia than the US.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Climate debates are often stuck in 2010. But there's no longer a tradeoff between economic growth and stopping climate change. In fact, thanks to technology, the two goals now go together!

https://t.co/ota0G4VEhI

[Sam Altman @sama]

very hard to do something novel for the first time; orders of magnitude easier to copy something that is known to be possible.

conviction is either extremely difficult, or free.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

A Volvo engineer named Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seatbelt, but Volvo gave away the patent to other manufacturers because it had more value as a free life-saving tool.