Two quotes about the power of constraints: "It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself." –Goethe "To love anything is to love its boundaries." –GK Chesterton Limitations force focus. They channel rather than stifle imagination.

Encounters on the run

Sometimes you gotta doodle in meetings

About to cross 800 running miles on the year

After Titan, I decided to stick with the theme of oil entrepreneurs, and at the same time rectify an important omission in my US civics education. I happened to read Moby Dick alongside Shakespeare, specifically Richard II, and it's clear that Melville was quite directly

Spooky

Like a virus reanimating the dead

remember windsurf

.Stripe Press is mostly an amazing publisher due to their impeccable taste in content curation But it doesn’t hurt to know your audience: book nerds that highly value a beautiful book as an object

Your regular courtesy reminder that Standard Ebooks has an insanely huge collection of free, public domain literature curated and readily available Never say you're bored ever again standardebooks.org/ebooks

sometimes I wonder what video I’ll be watching as an ICBM whistles across the quiet emptiness of the Pacific Ocean at Mach 7.

A reminder from Gordon Brander: start with a simple problem and work outward To get to "platform" or "toolkit" status, you first have to pass through solving a specific problem for a specific person Prototype-user fit → Product-problem fit → Product-market fit

If there was "A Pattern Language: The Game", it would look like this A Christopher Alexander design playground A Pattern Language

Please just make original stories into original films Stop drafting on the success of prior art

Any smart executive would greenlight this immediately