joshuago’s Bookmarks

A feast for the mind. Excellent for review, exploration, and inspiration.

The sword of linguistic ignorance can cut both ways.

It’s important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.

We can't all be Henry Clay. For creative endeavors, plenty of pitfalls of compromise. Beautifully unpacked.

Today’s polite, pleasant personality is, above all, a commercial personality. It is the salesman’s smile and hearty handshake, because the customer is always right and you should always keep the customer happy.

Video of Steve Jobs and team during the early days of NeXT.

A continually updated list of color laser printer models that do or do not print yellow tracking dots.

We force so much structured work onto our young people that they lose all opportunity to take part in the arguably more important “unstructured work”, the tinkering and hacking that once made us the leaders of the industrial world.

Since writing is such a cognitively intense task, the key to becoming faster is to develop strategies to make writing literally less mind-blowing.

Progress in science and technology is stalling. The technology slowdown threatens not just our financial markets, but the entire modern political order, which is predicated on easy and relentless growth.