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Filters have almost never filtered for talent, they’ve almost always filtered for professionalism, ie the ability to maintain an image of civility. Talent often has the essence of barbarism about it https://t.co/dUkPAEdGZ1
“If you guys want these crazy ideas, crazy stages, this crazy music, this crazy way of thinking… there's a chance it might come from a crazy person.” - Kanye West https://t.co/ottHjsw0XT
“The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements are so infernally dull. Albert Lasker made $50m partly bc he could stomach the atrocious manners of his great copywriters.”
My wife would make a better journalist than 99% of journalists. But it’s bc she’s pathological about asking questions and demanding the truth. She’d probably get fired if she joined an actual newsroom, for asking too many questions. So some of the best journalism in 🇸🇬 looks like https://t.co/Hi3IGYLCp9
This entire thread is an excellent “quiet part out loud” encapsulation of my core thesis and motivations, ie it’s why I wrote Friendly Ambitious Nerd and what motivates basically everything I do. Freedom and community for the feral free agent nerds of the world https://t.co/9yiWuISmHa
"being a product manager means being an interface between normies and weirdos . the weirdo can interact with the normie but the normie will fear and despise the weirdo. thus the normie passing pm is a neccessary buffer" – @NLRG_it https://t.co/7AiYfl2tET