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It’s crazy how people are saying “don’t start a moral panic over gene editing” If there ever was a technology to st… https://t.co/hnjlahgx2T
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Finally read "The Revolt of the Public" this break. Martin Gurri argues that social media has permanently hobbled e… https://t.co/HYCtuxpyyP
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Want to write a screenplay (or tell a compelling story of any kind)? Try using a beat sheet I structure all my work… https://t.co/L9sDwOdHC9
— sknthla (@sknthla)
I'm obsessed with F Scott Fitzgerald's non-fiction. Here he writes about the psychological effects of early success… https://t.co/jaEm3itSmT
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Interesting piece on how bad it was for women even the very recent past (until some brave "disagreeables" actively… https://t.co/oqOdS42GlF
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Starting a tech company feels a lot like making a movie. You have to write the logline (make prototype), script it… https://t.co/9fgV5Thuv5
— sknthla (@sknthla)
As an engineer, I thought I could impress the PM by doing really complicated stuff with code in just a few days. As… https://t.co/HengjIGjLz
— sknthla (@sknthla)
My other goal for 2018: fall in love. Now, I've spent some time thinking about how to maximize the probability of t… https://t.co/096ms44GEI
— sknthla (@sknthla)
If you had to pick 5 books to explain "how the world works", which ones would you pick? These are mine https://t.co/yfEnkmHRPv
— sknthla (@sknthla)
My plan for 2018: I will devote myself to the religion of art, to aesthetics and excellence, and to developing a sh… https://t.co/SSakFKLZa7
— sknthla (@sknthla)
What I've learned: nothing makes a startup run better than frequently coming up with actual breakthroughs - in soft… https://t.co/EWJPjcGKkW
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Super weird prediction: 2018 will be the year where a thousand miniature subcultures *actually* do bloom. In 2017 a… https://t.co/CTa3TfVDly
— sknthla (@sknthla)
I honestly think the cultural difference between London - East Coast, is much much smaller than California - East Coast
— sknthla (@sknthla)
I realized recently that a lot of the software we're used to (web infrastructure, mobile apps, game development) is… https://t.co/fUemgvaXv6
— sknthla (@sknthla)
I honestly didn't believe people when they said a 2 person startup could pump out features faster than a team at a… https://t.co/HF8NFxl7de
— sknthla (@sknthla)
So my new theory is entrepreneurs are seriously prone to underestimating how much undiscovered talent is out there.… https://t.co/Z9yzQxDo9o
— sknthla (@sknthla)
The cool thing about everyone focusing on tech is they all have a view on what’s next. Big companies and military t… https://t.co/xCyW44jSQD
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Here's a paper explaining why entrepreneurial endeavours require people to physically meet (social capital turns ou… https://t.co/GrqrwxIIPy
— sknthla (@sknthla)
I wonder if startups could increase their hiring advantage by marketing themselves as an "ADD-friendly" workplace.… https://t.co/FpbYsTSFZJ
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Really shocks me how low the circulation for various newspapers is. WSJ is only about 2 million people views per da… https://t.co/qYzsLpNCLe
— sknthla (@sknthla)
So, you know how I was saying people should write a short biography (like a long blog post) about their life up to… https://t.co/htGGjrncQO
— sknthla (@sknthla)
My point is not that gene engineering is 100% bad. Just that it deserves all the ethical attention that we reserve… https://t.co/hKgRT2d4Cb
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Talent at Asteroid is just bonkers now. We have two incredible former Apple engineers, a former PM at Riot, a marke… https://t.co/PLYq2afwZk
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Since we're doing that, here's a novel way to hate on Elon Musk: We know from the example of the Soviet Union that… https://t.co/GjWiSdMqEi
— sknthla (@sknthla)
So I took the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) test and scored 31 (32 is the cutoff for Aspergers) Now you guys see ho… https://t.co/yRQFnVYwco
— sknthla (@sknthla)
I think this is a 20th century legacy thing (seriously). Software companies, run by cool creative night people, wor… https://t.co/FI4hYMGKKB
— sknthla (@sknthla)
I've had this conversation so many times lately Me: I got my work visa approved! I can live in Calif for 5 years no… https://t.co/EpAXDkzu6z
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Congrats to people in #ForbesUnder30 Twitter is saying it's a "dumb list", and though I've thought was a bit true t… https://t.co/gDlbvEOjUn
— sknthla (@sknthla)
A weird trend: a lot of people I know are going back to look at stuff done in the 1960s to help with their current… https://t.co/uTaemhL9nw
— sknthla (@sknthla)
When I was a junior VC, I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings by rejecting them As a founder, I realize VC reject… https://t.co/E5Er5yiW6A
— sknthla (@sknthla)
"It was more important to inspire the students so that they wanted to learn, than to actually teach them the materi… https://t.co/ggDxZMuvIg
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Reaction to that Vanity Fair article: 90% of people in tech: WTF that never happens other 10% of people in tech: um… https://t.co/qlWiUMLlbt
— sknthla (@sknthla)
There's this weird phenomenon in Silicon Valley rn where VCs publicly do lots of original thinking and philosophisi… https://t.co/pU2Q1W4GVR
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Entrepreneurs are significantly more likely to be non-neurotypical, especially when it comes to things like ADHD (o… https://t.co/Z6mni2rUS3
— sknthla (@sknthla)
People are scared of tech because we’re telling them to be scared, says Stripe CEO Patrick Collison https://t.co/jmxCabBY9b via @Recode
— sknthla (@sknthla)
It's strange how easily we forget how uniquely terrible the 20th century was. 1 billion under dictatorships, 200 mi… https://t.co/VvxYbCiN3M
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Something I didn't realise before: as you do better and gain more responsibility in your career, you actually hear… https://t.co/gdMjDJCLr7
— sknthla (@sknthla)
Every industry suffered a decline in trust in 2017... but tech remains the beloved outlier https://t.co/Q9G5IO8I0l
— sknthla (@sknthla)
My theory is that networks will eventually win. I think mission-driven organizations will take over more and more o… https://t.co/rH69MPsKhf
— sknthla (@sknthla)
I'm at a hipster coffee shop in California and couldn't help but overhear a bunch of people whispering with excitem… https://t.co/a2sEktd1Pf
— sknthla (@sknthla)
A dumb quote that I nevertheless believe is true: "achievement is logarithmic". Supposedly meaning that it's *as* h… https://t.co/3XvauJteUe
— sknthla (@sknthla)