Rafa de Haro

combat fiction with fiction

[Rafa de Haro @rafadeharo]

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." - A

[Rafa de Haro @rafadeharo]

“God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world.” -FB

[Rafa de Haro @rafadeharo]

“The purest delegation of power is to individuals in a free market.”

[Rafa de Haro @rafadeharo]

“Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated by it and call it fate.” -CJ

[The Stoic Emperor @TheStoicEmperor]

If you are easily provoked you are easily controlled.

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

If you win a confidence vote with 51.5%, did you really win?

[Naval @naval]

Whether in commerce, science, or politics, history remembers the artists.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting the rest of your life.

[muneeb.btc @muneeb]

The best technology doesn’t win, the best marketed technology does.

(Believe this is a @pmarca quote but can’t find the source.)

[Rafa de Haro @rafadeharo]

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Naval @naval]

@TheStoicEmperor Boredom is a defense mechanism to avoid having to sit alone with our unaddressed thoughts.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it.

[Rafa de Haro @rafadeharo]

“Life has no theory, only practice.” - KOK

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

Really hoping we have hit peak Brussels sprouts.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The saying that it takes much more energy to displace than install falsehood is itself a falsehood

1) Sticky "falsehoods" are beneficial or useful for survival (placebo, superstition)
2) Falsehood can only persist if #Lindy
3) Nonhelpful falsehoods tend to collapse very quicky

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

We still haven’t quite figured out the right UI paradigms for deep work…

But for close collaboration on a deadline, technology is now *great*. AirDrop, Slack, WhatsApp, Google Drive, Google Docs, Zoom. Things are so much better than they were a decade ago.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

If you have faith, and if you believe in something hard enough, and deeply enough, and with all your heart, so what.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The ideas that kill incumbents are the ones they don't want to believe will work.

[Naval @naval]

To understand the probabilistic argument for the simulation hypothesis, notice that the number of characters that have lived and died in video games is far greater than the number of people that have lived and died in history.