What exactly is kerning? What is spacing? How are they different? Let’s talk about it! THREAD 🧵:

May the best people speak for you in important rooms when you are not there. Good night.

Most people suck at giving feedback. Here’s a framework for feedback that creates behavior change:

I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a solution to the exact research problem I've been puzzling over today. This is the moment I've been waiting for and I've decided to never close any tabs again

"Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow." Naval

Sometimes I stay up late amused that MS Swaminathan won the Borlaug award and Norman Borlaug won the MS Swaminathan award.

oh to be a cloud in a studio ghibli movie

Heard this story about how the bodies of people who die of thirst in the desert are often found carrying full bottles of water because they’re afraid that if they drink it they won’t have enough left to make it out of the desert

A pretty large part of the PM manager job is basically about good prioritization and explaining the rationale for that prioritization in a way that others understand.

Startups aren't just building what users want They’re also aesthetic expressions of what founders believe the world should look like - a reflection of their values + beliefs

Donald Knuth talking about Mathematical Writing. 1. Clarity 2. Literate Programming: Programs written for humans to read and understand. 3. Structured Writing: logical flow of ideas 4. Concrete Examples 5. Precision and Detail. A booklet - jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-pape…

Do what you gotta do

self-help is dead // long live self-help we are on the cusp of a new self-help paradigm, one that is rooted in self-improvement to one that is rooted in self-unfoldment self-improvement says: You need to do more, you need to have better discipline, you need to become secure,

Yuki Tsunoda joked that he's done over 10,000 laps around Suzuka...and he's sort of bored of this circuit. He's making overtakes where none other are... Lance Stroll: "I can't pass Tsunoda. It's not possible!" #F1 #JapaneseGP

It's pretty crazy the extent to which people's lives is literally bottleneck by their imagination of what their life can be. Like there was tweet floating around about "what hobbies are there past 25 besides cooking and exercising" and someone quote-posting, saying how they

14. On the Creative Process of Spain’s Exceptional Chefs “There are a rare breed of chefs in the world who lay awake at night staring at the ceiling thinking: “Would sheep’s milk go well with foie gras? Could I get away with that? What will it taste like? What would they look

19. On Ferran Adrià’s Innovative Approach to Cooking “We don’t create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes. This was the difference from the people who were creating dishes. We are going to create preparations and from those preparations, many dishes may be

Burnout happens when there is no progress. Burnout also happens when you have no visibility into how dots will connect in the future. Burnout is about not being able to close the loop after putting a ton of effort and not seeing enough results.