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@HLPClips Phones literally drain acetylcholine, the neurotransmitter that creates focus. No wonder the first 15 minutes of real work feel unbearable you've been depleting the hardware all morning.

@StephaneMallard La minorité continuera d'aller aux expos, de lire, de cultiver son goût, et sa faculté de penser. La masse abandonnera la part de réflexion qui lui restait. Le gap cognitif s'agrandira. Neuralink est peut-être la seule réponse sérieuse à ça.

@HLPClips true. and there's a layer below content: the format itself. every short-form video calibrates your brain's tolerance for sustained thought. after 150 sessions, you don't just consume differently the depth of the thoughts you're capable of shrinks with it.

@conductr_ Real ones know life starts the second the airpods come out and the phone goes airplane mode. you don't notice how loud it was until it's quiet.

@kevin_jordan__ The 47 ideas were never the problem. it's that none of them survive long enough to become real. The brain that generates them can't hold them.

@nathan_covey The embarrassment of pulling out a flip phone in public fades fast. What stays: memorizing roads again, reaching for pen and paper, getting lost in your thoughts. the brain recovers when you stop feeding it 150 interruptions a day.

@Adrien_B_A Paris n'est pas une ville où l'on vit confortablement. C'est une ville où l'on meurt lucide. Nice t'offrira le soleil. Paris, le gouffre. Paris fait mal, et c'est pour ça qu'on l'aime. Je te conseille de lire les Tableaux parisiens de Baudelaire

En 1955, moins de 24% des américains faisaient de l'exercice régulièrement. L'activité physique volontaire était associée à l'armée ou aux sportifs de haut niveau. Puis un livre a posé la thèse que la condition cardiovasculaire était un besoin humain fondamental, et en 16 ans ce chiffre est passé à 60% de la population. On est exactement à ce même point d'inflexion pour le cerveau. L'attention profonde s'atrophie sans usage, exactement comme la capacité cardiovasculaire. La capacité à tenir un problème difficile pendant deux heures sans interruption, à résister à la stimulation constante, se dégrade si on ne l'entraîne pas.

@Alex_Tsico deux différenciateurs : architecturer des systèmes d'agents qui créent du leverage, pas juste utiliser le chat. et avoir gardé la capacité de penser sans eux. Sans la deuxième, la première ne produit rien d'original.

@tikhbana 7 days a week made sense when you were inventing something nobody had built. For executing a known playbook, it's cargo-cult grinding. The bottleneck in insurance has nothing to do with effort.

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something. And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy. Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output. This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work. I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution. Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook. With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it. My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day. There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed. Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work. I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things. I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master. Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

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"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose". Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups. - The company works 7 days per week. - Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office. - He built a cafe in the office because there was

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@karrisaarinen Deep work compresses output, leaving room for books, exhibitions, concerts... Remove that input and your creative capacity starves quietly. The most productive people protect their leisure as fiercely as their calendar.

Zola called it Germinal. What it produced back then: socialism, communism, an entire generation turned against capitalism An hour of intense focus produces more than a day of work fragmented by notifications, slack, wrong priorities and meetings. Founders who understand this will retain their teams (@karrisaarinen..). The others will fuel the next wave of socialism

Superficialité vs Pensée profonde à l'ère de l'IA : Mettre un bouquin d'UX sur Claude et lui demander la couleur d'un bouton peut donner l'impression de vite monter en compétence. Mais ça ne forge pas le goût ni le jugement. Sans avoir lu, pensé, questionné pendant des heures et sous la douche la matière, tu n'as aucune référence pour évaluer ce que l'IA vient de produire. Ton seul rôle dans cette boucle, c'est écrire le prompt et Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V la réponse. Le goût se construit dans la friction cognitive, la pensée profonde, pas dans le glisser-déposer d'un PDF. Pour résister à l'IA : 1. Lire et expérimenter pour maîtriser les fondamentaux 2. Utiliser l'IA pour amplifier votre jugement Merci à @BetterCallMedhi qui m'a aidé à forger ce point de vue

@dantefofante haha claude inspiration :)

@46Krypto Café + l-théanine, et le téléphone en mode avion dans une autre pièce + papier avec les 3 prios de la journée

@rauchg Exactly. and "be the best" is the whole point: AI raised the floor for everyone, so the edge is now the taste it can't replicate.

@MoritzW42 @NeuroGum solid pick. caffeine and l-theanine is the most documented stack for focus, no debate.

@thug_business Agreed, motion beats paralysis every time. but the real edge isn't moving non-stop, it's what happens when that energy locks onto one thing

@DopaminePlsMe Most accurate thing i've read on it. the exhaustion isn't from the mess, it's from every object forcing a decision your brain can't make on command