flâneur

Liam Hough

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highlights — 37

  • He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine
    Curius / Onboarding
  • "Rather than trying to forecast innovation or technological progress, it draws from the past to be more relatable in the present. A vintage quality that makes you feel almost nostalgic for the future." Even simple details like the furniture and fashion of Her embody this idea, tweaking timeless elements of the past to make them feel fresh, but familiar.”
    Her (2013) and Dreams of the Future
  • The idea is that we like faces that are somewhat humanlike, and we like faces that are totally humanlike, but we hate faces that are almost-but-not-totally humanlike. Faces that fall just short of being human give us the collective willies.
    All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why
  • But $3,500? For a V1 product that will get way better (and cheaper) in the next few years? When I already have a Meta Quest? Nah. I might be a fanboy but I’m not a chump. It was the obvious grown-up decision to wait it out. Then I ordered one in the first minute after preorders started.
    All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why
  • Most topics I skim and move onwards from, but for certain topics, where it makes sense, I write a quick 1-2 page essay because I feel it may be important. I do this so I can develop a quick point of view and understand the nuances a little bit better.
    Learn With Me - Chamath Palihapitiya
  • 40. If someone shares an idea with you, always support them. When someone shares an idea, a dream, or a goal with me, I always support them. No matter how improbable, or unlikely I believe it to be. The first reason I do this is because nothing was ever gained by diminishing someone’s sense of wonder. The second, is because I’m often wrong, so really, what do I know? Also, if you become known as the guy who always gives “tough love” or always “tells it how it is”, people will eventually…stop talking to you.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • The key to great conversation is digging around someone else’s brain until you find something that sparks your genuine curiosity. Once you do, the words will flow effortlessly from both of you.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • People can respect rejection, but they can’t respect a flake. There are only two acceptable responses to any invitation. Yes, or no.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • 31. Hosting dinner parties will change your social life. Eight people is the perfect size for a dinner party, of which, you should be hosting more. I hosted 23 this year, and while I’m by no means suggesting that you attempt that, I do suggest you at least try your hand at one. There is no greater and more time-tested way to build a close group of friends, than regularly gathering around a home-cooked meal.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • The best books I’ve ever read have had more to do with the time in my life that I’ve read them, than the actual contents of the book.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • Rather, we all crave stories. We all want a window into the author’s life, and the events that shaped their beliefs.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • A Japanese tea ceremony should rank high on your bucket list if you’re interested in finding out what I mean.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • Ride the wave you’re on, and give up the desire to be on another wave. If I tried to force myself to read, during the audiobook phase, I’d end up frustrated and getting nowhere.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • The wisest people in human history lived simple, rural, and austere lives. They often lived in or near poverty. I don’t need everything to be perfect, or even comfortable, to find a deeper meaning to my life. I simply need to cultivate my ability to notice the universal in the mundane.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • I’ve yet to experience a transcendent or divine moment when it was loud.
    40 Lessons from 32 years
  • Status shields can help you defend against sudden drops, slow erosions, severe hits and all the rest. Status shields are the things that prop up your status.
    Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 - by Anu Atluru
  • To become truly great at something, you need to be at least a little obsessed with that thing — enough to get lost in the joy of doing it, not the allure of what it could get you.”
    Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 - by Anu Atluru
  • The “riskier” the endeavor you undertake while in status limbo, the more unstable and uncertain your future and the timeline to exit this state.
    Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 - by Anu Atluru
  • You have to be willing for “people” to think less of you, or at least be unsure what to think of you for a while
    Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 - by Anu Atluru
  • “You have to be willing to be nobody to have a chance to be who you want to be.”
    Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 - by Anu Atluru
  • Status limbo is a place with more freedoms than other states
    Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 - by Anu Atluru
  • status limbo can be an incredibly meaningful time of free exploration, personal development, and professional growth — and an all-around transformative period.
    Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 - by Anu Atluru
  • Status limbo is a state of being that’s frequented by those we admire, both for their remarkable achievements and inspiring journeys. Even if you don’t identify with this archetype, status limbo seems to be a universal human experience that we all have more than once in a lifetime
    Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 - by Anu Atluru
  • When you step off the colloquial ladder, you land in status limbo.
    Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 - by Anu Atluru
  • It's hard to create a subtle sense of shared, synchronous space among multiple people on the web.
    Ambient Co-presence
  • Technology and ethics
    https://www.rabbitholeathon.com/manifesto
  • Here’s to the ones who dream Foolish as they may seem
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • You don’t need to believe in yourself to be an artist, you just need to believe in your audience
    Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself - jxnl.co
  • if you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well enough
    Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself - jxnl.co
  • Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather taking action despite the fear.
    Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself - jxnl.co
  • I find the most effective way to get someone's attention is to simply give. Also just like dating. Hey I saw that you read this book on your website, i think you'd like this book too its pretty short etc etc. Oh I noticed some tests were failing in your repo, I fixed them for you. Hey! I've added some examples to the code base, do you have any feedback?
    Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself - jxnl.co
  • Multiplayer cursors can add a sense of shared activity in digital spaces but lacks the ambient quality we're seeking. Seeing exactly which word or design mock your manager is focused on isn't the chill background sensation we're going fo
    Ambient Co-presence
  • Ambient co-presence is the sensation of sharing a space or context with other people, without directly interacting or continuously communicating with them.
    Ambient Co-presence
  • We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing
    Ambient Co-presence
  • How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard
    Advice
  • You can do what you want, but you can't want to want what you want.
    What You (Want to)* Want
  • immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data. placeholder
    Curius / Onboarding