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This subby’s dedicated to highlighting the amazing words my brilliant writer friends strung together this year. They’re all insanely talented and I owe them a lot. Here’s to another year of manic texting, rabid researching, cheetah-speed gdoc animal’ing, and lots and lots of word whittling. Enjoy the bountiful idea cornucopia below :)
Humans (alphabetized)
Anna-Sofia Lesiv: Criticizing Computers
Brie Wolfson: Notes on “Taste”
Devon Zuegel: What Startups Can Learn From Pirates About Compensation
Erik Torenberg: There’s Just too Many Damn Elites
Lea Degen: On Saving San Francisco and Getting Out of the Kiddy Pool
Linus Lee: Resonant
Nadia Asparouhova: Cultivating Agency
Nicola Buskirk: The Sugar Babies of Stanford University
Tyler Angert: Foundational Skills for Digital Creation
Santi Ruiz: Are Love and Partiality the Same Thing?
And finally, my fav 5 Mind Muds of 2022 (by yours truly)
Chapters: Some things I learned and was wrong about in 2021
Conviction: What is your relationship to reality?
Commitments: How do you frame freedom for yourself?
Critical: Are you being critical enough of your own self-criticisms?
Courage: Why are we so wimpy?
Media
Crucify Me by Brockhampton (song)
RIP my boys but TY for sending off with this banger.Get Light by Nas (song)
Great party bop. More here.N Side by Steve Lacy (song)
Fav song of 2022.Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme in Twin Peaks
Didn’t know I needed this context on one of my fav soundtracks but I did.Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned by Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman
Fun study that disputes the value of having objectives in entrepreneurship.Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
*Amazing* cliffhanger of a book packed with complex, highly hatable characters.The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby
Hands-down best history of VC book — described in riveting and playful detail.
But a curiosity of my type remains after all the most agreeable of all vices — sorry, I meant to say: the love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
— Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche