What does zigging when others zag look like right now? One key question here is “Do you know who the ‘others’ are?” + “Do you know well what they are doing?”. You can think you’re zigging while actually following the zagging herd.
Most people fail to recognize the most meaningful conversation topics, something called a “shoved fact.” The Shoved Fact is very similar to the psychoanalysis term, “Freudian slip,” which says a slip of the tongue may represent an unconscious wish or internal train of thought. (I picked this up from “Stop Asking Questions”.)
Surgical Reading - How to read 12 books at once - HINT: the TOC & the Index of a book are your best tools. I realised that I stopped functioning as a creative person if I didn’t read (5 mins)
The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox - A long read by a16z on the cost of cloud services like AWS. Perhaps the largest opportunity in infrastructure right now is sitting somewhere between cloud hardware and the unoptimized code running on it. (16 mins)
