Sep
15
Derivative vs. original ideas
The other day, I was listening to old music on the radio, and I realized that I
could guess the
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Perspective
Jimmy’s perspective on some topic.
Sep
13
Calvin and Hobbes
Recently, I rediscovered my favorite newspaper comic strip from when I was a
kid. Unlike many things from my childhood,
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Sep
10
Function versus form
In 1968, Dick Fosbury won the 1968 Summer Olympics high jump with an
unconventional: he cleared the bar with a
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Sep
08
A corporate elevator hypothesis
Last year, three out of five floors of the WeWork where my office is located
were completely taken over by
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Sep
07
The distribution problem
In Peter Thiel's Zero to One, there's a chapter called "If you build it, will
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Sep
04
My 50th daily post (and lessons learned)
This is the 50th day since I committed to writing one post every day
[https://jimmychen.blog/the-next-100-days/]. I'
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Sep
02
Show your work
> Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes on look ridiculous in public. They're
in love, so they
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Sep
01
Never eat alone
Today, for the first time in a while, I had two of my meals with friends (not
family or coworkers)
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Aug
31
Saving the bookstore: part 2
About two weeks ago, I wrote about
[https://jimmychen.blog/saving-the-bookstore/] how opening a bookstore would be
a Very Bad
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Aug
30
Munger Models: Confirmation Bias
> "What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so
that their prior conclusions
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