chris

The medium is what happens to you, and that is the message.

[chris @chrisduffel]

@lukeburgis “A problem we’ll put is half solved.” - John Dewey

[chris @chrisduffel]

Education is a transfer of desires.

[LM Sacasas @LMSacasas]

Similar hopes were pinned on radio, moving pictures, television, computers, animatronics, the internet, etc.
The history of ed tech is litany of dashed hopes b/c such hopes are anchored to a doomed assumption: that education is fundamentally an information transfer problem.

[chris @chrisduffel]

How do you know if you’re on the most ambitious form of the problem you’re working on?

[chris @chrisduffel]

The blood of the creator of the universe

[seraphim (richard) rohlin @richardrohlin]

Okay fellow Traitors, what are we drinking to celebrate getting away with Treason this weekend?

[chris @chrisduffel]

How to spot importance when pain overrides the sensorium.

Skill of the age.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There is something to this. There's definitely a "buck stops here" element to being a founder. But I think it's going slightly too far to say it's your number one job. Your number one job is to solve the important problems, and pain and importance are not perfectly correlated.

[chris @chrisduffel]

@kalezelden @grok look at the chart and play out the trends. determine what year someone can be a good Catholic without believing in any of these statements (when the charts will all hit 100%)

[chris @chrisduffel]

It’s no accident that the church prescribes and priests in turn promise to read divine poetry throughout the day, every day of their lives.

Poetry read, sung, preferably in community.

That is soul craft at its height.

[chris @chrisduffel]

The ability to not have a take, and then if you do, to not be uncontrollably compelled express it.

Such is blessedness.

[Robin Hanson @robinhanson]

Few people think enough on this basic question: "On what topics should I bother to have opinions?" Yes, concrete looming actions can force opinions, but few topics do that. Consider contributing better to the division of intellectual labor via better opinions on few topics

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

Bear all things which come upon thee unto the praise of Jesus Christ; for after winter cometh summer, after night returneth day, after the tempest a great calm.

-Thomas á Kempis

[chris @chrisduffel]

Start with your gut.

Clarify your why in the doing.

[Luke Burgis @lukeburgis]

I don't believe that the "why" for a brand or a business is the most important—this is Simon Sineky mumbo-jumbo speak that has been mimetically adopted by every brand agency on the planet—for the same reason that most people's vocations are revealed to them after many years of groping toward some inarticulate goals, with mixed desires, that only begans fully apparent in time. If you start something thinking you have to define a clear "why" before you've even got off the ground, you're likely to miss the inarcticulate energy that is more than enough to get started building.

[chris @chrisduffel]

Pretty wild thought, but if trends play out it’s at least directionally correct

[Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo]

I suspect (and fear) that today’s intellectual discourse on Twitter will seem as slow and thoughtful to our descendants as the Republic of Letters does to us.

[chris @chrisduffel]

Amazing find on our way to Yellowstone.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

In the state of Wyoming, USA, lies a real hydrological oddity. It's a small stream (creek) that is thought to be one of a just a few examples in the world. It is placed so precariously and perfectly that it's hard to believe it is able to exist.

1/n

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

"Houston is green [lots of kids] nearly to its core, w/ family-heavy neighborhoods sitting close to downtown. Los Angeles is mostly orange/tan [no/few kids], its children pushed into a handful of pockets.. both sprawling Sun Belt metros, yet one is visibly a place that raises children & the other, increasingly, is not."

[chris @chrisduffel]

@PruyMarcus @BradWilcoxIFS Not true.

[chris @chrisduffel]

To be clear

There are many different kinds of energy,

Not just high and low.

[chris @chrisduffel]

This is @FoundersPodcast / @davidsenra - the line that I still think about a few times a week.

Probably because I listened to so many podcasts myself…

“podcasting a straight up energy transfer”

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

My best advice on building an audience is to be excited about something.

Be really, really excited.

Your enthusiasm will flow into your content and do far more than any hacks or other optimizations.

And the excitement makes it easier to post more.

[Cody J. Swanson @CodyJSwanson]

Schrödinger’s law 101, anything you can’t imagine can be done; exploring the stars, ha! how about forming one.

[chris @chrisduffel]

Let’s test this theory.

What are the odds we end up with hundreds of millions of Alexander’s?

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Aristotle tutored exactly one student. His name was Alexander, and he went on to conquer the known world. For two thousand years a personal tutor was the rarest privilege on Earth. A kid with a cheap phone now has a better one that will only keep getting BETTER.

[chris @chrisduffel]

@TimelessTrvlr Let the places be. Don’t turn it into an ad for your x account.

[chris @chrisduffel]

And the environment was different.

Our primary medium is that of the consumer.

Our primary mode of relationship to the stuff of life, from buildings, to food, to small things, is as that of a consumer.

We have been shaped into a people who buy things, not make, or fix, or grow them.

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

The people who built this weren't motivated by profits.

[chris @chrisduffel]

@michael_nielsen How many do you think actually wright, as in no keyboard,with pen and paper?