Kelly

product designer & investor

[Kelly @theikelly]

there are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see them.

[Kelly @theikelly]

@zamdoteth I do have news for you

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Kelly @theikelly]

@ElishaDLong Retardmaxxing on full throttle 🚀

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Great men of history had little to no introspection.

The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.

@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:

David: You don't have any levels of introspection?

Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.

David: Why?

Marc: Move forward. Go!

I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.

David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.

Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.

He just woke up and was like:

I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.

Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.

All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.

Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.

The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.

And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.

We need to criticize the individual.

The individual needs to self criticize.

The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.

It never resonated with me.

[Craig Weiss @craigweiss]

the best talent now are simply people with high agency. they might not even be technical. agency is literally the only metric that matters now

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make.

https://t.co/3GQUlfH58t

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[TIME @TIME]

TIME’s new cover: Artemis II is poised for the first lunar mission since 1972 https://t.co/FVr569aQR3

[Joe Gebbia @jgebbia]

Great to be back on American Optimist talking National Design Studio @ndstudio 🇺🇸 with @JTLonsdale

[emil @emilwidlund]

best documentary I’ve watched this year

[Kelly @theikelly]

@chrisalbon 😂😂

[Founder Mode @Founder_Mode_]

"World-class entrepreneurs are polymaths." - Peter Thiel

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

one month later they figured it out

[jack mcclelland @jackmcclelland]

i've noticed people who are internally motivated tend to naturally avoid being performative, or needing an audience for their work

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

How life feels when you realize you can just do things

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting eleventh flight test of Starship!

[Kelly @theikelly]

@bezabanjye the US has a gun problem..!