Ben Roy

I write about technology, culture & markets

[Ben Roy @benroy]

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[Ben Roy @benroy]

@micahfattahi It's a good lesson to learn i.e. that your own life experience is usually more valuable than other people's random takes

>Maybe it just hits harder once you've strip mined a bunch of "the best" content out there and can move on

[Ben Roy @benroy]

If you're a creative person the only thing that matters is contact with reality: real words on a page, real jokes told on stage, real apps published to the app store etc.

I do think it's fine to get advice from people you respect sometimes, but you can spend a lifetime doing fake work related to the thing instead of the thing itself

Also, you don't really learn most lessons until you face a problem on your own terms and work through it... theory can only get you so far: "The map is not the territory"

>I've probably wasted a year of my life reading craft books and self-help stuff so this is all said from fumbling the ball personally

The only answer I've found is blocking off time for the main quest and when I inevitably wander off track it's just about trying to be gentle and coach myself back to what matters

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

The purpose of productivity books/podcasts is to quell the guilt of being unproductive in the past with the dream of being productive in the future, productivity itself doesn't enter the equation, because the answer would be to start by closing the book/turning off the podcast

[Ben Roy @benroy]

@kramnotmark Unironically this is the way

[Ben Roy @benroy]

Also relevant

https://t.co/4x1QaxRtic

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

— Franz Kafka, 1919

[Ben Roy @benroy]

@adam__xyz This would be a legit podcast

[Ben Roy @benroy]

@jillgun It's going to be a wild day on the internet when all X DMs get exploited and leaked as a searchable database

[Caitlin Cook @DeadCaitBounce]

Dune was decades ahead of its time

[fejau @fejau_inc]

> can’t own stonks with capex slowing
> can’t own crypto with quantum and ai risk
> can’t browse the internet cause everything is hacked
> can’t own software cause everything is hacked
> can’t own gold cause alchemy is solved
> can’t own bonds as inflation and crowding out hurting it

> mfw

[will o’brien @Willob]

Another takeaway after three years of building a company is that the returns to just "being a good person", and not acting transactionally, are higher than I expected.

There are so many transactional, boring, and at times immoral people in the tech industry that if you act with sustained warmth, authenticity, humor, and integrity, great gifts will be laid before you. White pill.

[Richard Chen @richardchen39]

A bit controversial but I don't like doing founder references.

- Outsourcing your thinking to others shows lack of conviction in your own beliefs
- The best founders often get lots of negative references anyways

[Ben Roy @benroy]

@charlicohen

[charli cohen @charlicohen]

find yourself

[Ben Roy @benroy]

@franciszhan Bullish list

[Cyan Banister @cyantist]

Someone else's "to do list" doesn't have to be yours. It's hard to say no, but not every email, text message, voicemail or interaction warrants a response. It doesn't mean you don't like them or there's any assigned feelings to anything. It's just that time is finite and YOU get to choose how to spend yours.

It's rarer than gold.

[Grant Slatton @GrantSlatton]

planning is overrated

just take the shortest term action that is in the general direction of your goal

reality is a super high dimensional space, so this basically always works

[Ben Roy @benroy]

I still think the key question of this decade is: what do you want more than dopamine? because there are infinite ways to waste life scrolling, sitting in group chats, having endless conversations with LLMs etc.

So what do you actually want? Are you doing the thing?

[Ben Roy @benroy]

@jords Insane line up, gg

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@therosieum @tryramp @leadinginds Hell yeah, congrats Rosie

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@big_duca

[Ben Roy @benroy]

It takes a lot to really surprise (and inspire) people in modern culture but this is another where were you when moment from Elon

>Despite all his faults he's the only person playing at this level and all you can say is gg

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Elon Musk's Tesla $TSLA officially unveils new flying Roadster.

[Ben Roy @benroy]

@Oaknarrow My stepdad texted back the same thing haha