I’m proofing the third pass of Keep Going. I find it really difficult at this stage of a project to get the right perspective — “fresh eyes” — for the thing, which makes it really, really hard to make edits. The production schedule for this book has been much more accelerated than any of my

“and the warm weather is holding.”

“what's your manager's job?”

“This is in line with the internet's idea that it's up to every individual to "protect" themselves with their own filters and settings I don't believe full responsibility should be on the receiving end. I wish our tools gave responsibility to senders for how they communicate.”

“Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what’s been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new.” —David McCullough In his Paris Review interview, David McCullough talks about how important seeing is to the writer and historian, and

“If the customer is always right, then you’re never wrong when you’re consuming. No contemporary company has offered that Faustian bargain more broadly and aggressively than Amazon. In a previous era, being at home meant you probably weren’t shopping. The mall was, as Ian Bogost noted in an essay for the Atlantic, where “consumerism roared and swelled but, inevitably, remained contained.” Freeing consumerism from that containment was one of the internet’s earliest applications, streamlining the process of shopping at home, and later, on phones.” “Recent technologies have enabled the role of customer to be fused with the newer role of user, who inhabits an entire system rather than a specific transaction”

“That’s how he got started. So: model, see if there’s interest, and then offer up the time, space, and materials.”

“When features are implemented through a single team, you need to be good at prioritizing. It shouldn’t be easy to add every little feature to the product. By making all features compete for priority, you make sure the best features get the attention.”

“...but if I could smile at a person in the real world in a way that would radically increase the likelihood that others would smile at that person, too, then I’d be doing that all day long.”

“We live in hard times and people are in pain. Is that the best time for complex art? For me, the answer is always yes. Because I am complex. The situations we deal with are complex. If our art is to be true, it cannot be simple.” — @Mike_Eagle at #xoxofest— mb (@mb) September 8, 2018

me, before the party: ok ok u got this. just try to fit in. talk to ppl. stay cool. dont turn into a big duck. ull be fineme, at the party: pic.twitter.com/iFZr103MXp— jonny sun (@jonnysun) July 4, 2017

some art heals. some art soothes. some art shouts and screams and yells. some art just tries to help the days go by a little faster. whatever it is you're making, it doesn't need to do everything. whatever art is moving you, allow it be what it needs to be. keep going.— jonny sun (@jonnysun) June 16, 2018

I came in from my 10-foot commute once and my 3-year-old looked up from his snack and said, “What did you make today, papa?” It took me by surprise, as I had always assumed that when I was out of sight I was out of mind. (I now know that children seem to be most interested in you

“We humans tend to overlook a very useful fact: every experience does go, at some point. Every sight, sound, taste, or feeling you’ve ever had is gone, except what’s happening right now as you look at this screen.” “Let it come, let it be, let it go.”

“You go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice about engineering. What is it?🤔 I’m putting this question to @Twitter engineers from around the world who are in San Francisco for #oneteam this week. Here’s what they have to say👇”

“The problem with teeth is that the larger they are, the more likely they are to break the skin.”

“One streamer I spoke to who spent three months without an audience, MaverickRPDM, says that they kept live streaming games with zero viewers because they saw it as a form of self-improvement. “Streaming has made me more interesting, more quick witted, more outgoing and extroverted,” MaverickRPDM says. “It has helped make me feel more comfortable being myself, and by virtue of that has made me be more myself, more often, even outside of the stream.””

“Our relationship to the browser has changed. It is not about reading the content of one page and going on to the next. It is about gathering the relevant data in the sea of nonsense, and leaving the tabs open, «in working memory», until the gathered data is processed. The browser became a space of research, an instrument of externalized cognition and memory.”

a few things to talk about in 1:1s with your manager pic.twitter.com/GSc1LB87AE— 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk) September 5, 2018

if you do 1:1s with your manager's manager: what do you talk about?— 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk) September 5, 2018

“Proprietary data is precious to technology companies, yet some of the most valuable data lives solely in the minds of engineers.”