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84 Cards across 5 Sources·Added to Korva by @mayaellery, @bentorren and @ruthkellan

What I Worked On21 Cards

Steve Russell translated McCarthy’s self-interpreting Lisp into IBM 704 machine language, turning it into an ordinary programming language.

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Attention is zero-sum. Choosing an adequate project blocks your attention from reaching a better one.

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How to Do Great Work21 Cards

The crucial insight in many major ideas lies in the question, not the eventual answer.

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Copy openly and consciously, or imitation turns you into a vehicle for someone else’s assumptions.

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Why Nerds are Unpopular17 Cards

If teenage misery is physiological, it should be universal. Are Mongol nomads all nihilists?

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Teenage unhappiness largely comes from adults abandoning economically unnecessary adolescents in confined schools with nothing real to do, not hormones.

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Hackers and Painters17 Cards

The original 1985 Macintosh succeeded because users never had to understand or prepare for the software.

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Premature design is as dangerous as premature optimization. Deciding too early what a program should do limits later discovery.

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Founder Mode8 Cards

Delegating entirely through direct reports allows professional fakers and politically skilled executives to control a company and drive it into decline.

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Steve Jobs chose roughly 100 Apple employees for annual retreats based on importance, not organizational rank.

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