Jonathan Owens

Life is short, and we have but little time to gladden the hearts of those who travel with us. So be quick to love and make haste to be kind.
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[Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen]

This should be read by anyone serious about learning and technology. I've read it three times, so far, and know it will bear much more re-reading before I fully understand it

[Natasha @devnatash]

After spending the last ~5 years learning about & working in data science, I have come to this realization: Data doesn’t reach people. It doesn’t make them change. To affect people, at scale, you have to tell them stories.

[Strong Towns @StrongTowns]

Imagine if the safety of the public, not speed, determined the way we built our roadways.

[Chloe Bellerby @ChloeBellerbyMH]

One of the most powerful things I was ever told was to “be where your feet are”. We spend so much time worrying about the future and the list of things we have to do instead of being present and enjoying where we are right now. So this is me telling you to be where your feet are

[Jonathan Owens @intjonathan]

@zachklein Definitely the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club (https://t.co/kAygFsIM0U). Between them and the ORHC (https://t.co/FZQRpcYIgs) I bet all this stuff would find a joyful home.

[Jonathan Owens @intjonathan]

I tried this in my early career. Compromising on them unconsciously was shockingly easy. It's ok to break these rules, but make sure it's worth it. Breaking them with no upside is easy to talk yourself into; one only loses doing so.

[Brian Ji @brianjji]

Charlie Munger’s 3 rules for life.

[Jonathan Owens @intjonathan]

@rands Reminds me of the Haidt analogy of the elephant and the rider. Rational rider thinks they're directing the feeling elephant, but the elephant is ultimately in charge.

[Jonathan Owens @intjonathan]

@DocOnDev The Consultant's Creed

[Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen]

Paraphrasing Feynman: "for a successful technology, reality must take precedence over 'winning' short-term-arguments, for Nature cannot be fooled". Neither power, nor self-righteousness, nor power-to-build, are a substitute for understanding. Yet they can all give that illusion

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

A gem form the LessWrong community: 'Humans are not automatically strategic.'

"A large majority of otherwise smart people spend time doing semi-productive things, when there are massively productive opportunities untapped."

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

Science fiction is shaping the tech industry, but it matters which science fiction. I grew up reading Heinlein and Asimov but my values changed when I discovered Ursula K. Le Guin. @parismarx captures why. https://t.co/0oYOOxBNH7 @ursulaleguin

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I wish digital maps had a setting to increase label density by a factor of 10+, for a perspective like the road atlases of yore. We manufacture these amazing high-resolution displays but then render maps in crayon.

[Jonathan Owens @intjonathan]

Bucket list item complete:
✅ Get published in a Stewart Brand book

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

I've posted a refreshed version of the "YouTube Rules" section of my MAINTENANCE book, enriched with two of the many comments. From @matisse_enzer and @intjonathan--excerpted below.https://t.co/JRqWxlsoAf

[Jonathan Owens @intjonathan]

@humantransit I gotta say, MN really showed us up here. Those 2008 OR finalists are mediocre at best.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

You do not have to be as interesting as Game of Thrones! You have to be as good at storytelling as the guy geeking out about grease traps. You can *copy those story beats.*

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

I’m not endorsing TikTok I’m just saying that it makes me crazy that a well-heeled industry filled with intelligent people can’t bring the production capabilities of a bored middle school student to bear on a problem that they know costs them money.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

If you don’t build homes, you’re never going to be happy about who ends up owning homes.

Build homes.

[Doc Norton @DocOnDev]

We do not rise to the level of our goals. We fall to the levels of our systems. - @JamesClear #AtomicHabits

#leadership

[Jonathan Owens @intjonathan]

@mchowla @patio11 Sort of. Maybe there's no consumer price decrease, but it shifts the revenue from Visa/MC to the merchants, thus distributing the money more widely.