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king city pinks cooked with carrot, garlic, and celery; recooked with sweet potato leaves cooked with pounded chilies and garlic.
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Innovation requires uncomfortable work. People resist discomfort viscerally and instinctively. Solution: commit to calibrated projects that exceed current capabilities and trigger some productive desperation to force the learning and experimentation that incentives can't.
Desperation by design - Vaughn Tan
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Desperation by design - Vaughn Tan
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roni horn, water double v3 2 solid cast glass cylinders, black and clear, each approx 1.3m tall and 1.3m dia how long did they have to anneal this enormous solid piece of glass 🤯
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The most important knowledge in any organisation can't be written down. It's tacit knowledge that must be learned through direct experience. Three mechanisms that actually work for creating orgs that can transmit tacit knowledge well:
Learning what matters - Vaughn Tan
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1999 vieux telegraphe and 2018 koehler ruprecht kallstadter saumagen auslese trocken
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Businesses need cheap small-scale automation ... which is already feasible to build. But corporate mindsets and procurement systems built around big, expensive-to-build software can't figure out how to buy these Boring Tiny Tools. Imagination failure, not technical barrier.
A Boring Tiny Tooling paradigm - Vaughn Tan
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just off a long call with an editor at a press. among many things, we talked about how publishing gravitates toward high-certainty book projects and projects which are illusory in their high certainty of success. (the large investment of time required for publishing is what makes publishers grasp for certainty that the...
#43: A new market of ideas
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ultra hd food promotional displays are mildly disturbing idk why
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a biryani
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