“single-threaded leadership,” in which a single person, unencumbered by competing responsibilities, owns a single major initiative and heads up a separable, largely autonomous team to deliver its goals.
Colin Bryar and Bill Carr in Working Backwards
I lead teams at the intersection of strategy and design. Autodidact. Polymath. Barbecue acolyte. I start fires (the good kind).
“single-threaded leadership,” in which a single person, unencumbered by competing responsibilities, owns a single major initiative and heads up a separable, largely autonomous team to deliver its goals.
Colin Bryar and Bill Carr in Working Backwards
To be abundantly clear, as it stands, OpenAI currently spends $2.35 to make $1.
Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At in OpenAI Is a Bad Business
Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.
— Andy Benoit
None in Quick Passages
Note: Via Shane Parrish
Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like, such as reading to your little boy, or showing him a thing you love, or singing him a song, or putting on his shoes keeps the devil down in the hole. — Nick Cave
Brilliantcrank in Hopefulness Is the Warrior Emotion That Keeps the Devil Down in the Hole.
*“One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky…and he said ‘look,’ he said, ‘you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'” –* Marie Howe
thenerdreich.com in ‘Unhumans’: J.D. Vance and the Language of Genocide
Cool thing about pendulums: The time it takes for one to swing forward and backward—the period—won’t change, no matter how wide it swings. If it’s got a lot of energy, it’ll swing farther and faster, but the period will still be the same. This is what mechanical clocks take advantage of to keep time. That period ends up being driven by two things, and two things only: the length of the pendulum and gravity.
Andy Weir in Project Hail Mary