If your taste is so good, why aren't you deploying it anywhere? We don't need more cultural critics. We need people who can deploy their…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
The advancement in AI narrows the gap between ideas and reality, but widens the gap between creation and meaning. Thought Artificial…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
A startup creates sustainable growth by focusing on the five growth factors in the correct order: Activation > Engagement > Referral…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Tacit knowledge is acquired through a process of moving from conscious incompetence to conscious competence to unconscious competence…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
The goal of life is to be excited to go to work and excited to go home. Article: Tweet I love this simple yet beautifully rephrased "Love…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Human emotions and behavior can be understood by examining three processing levels: visceral (instinctive reaction), behavioral (learned…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
The four essential elements for sustaining interest in storytelling: stakes, suspense, surprise, and humor. Book: Storyworthy American…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Real confidence is status fluidity. Truly confident people have internal comfort to be unapologetically themselves. They are at ease with…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." — John von Neumann Quote This reflects how important it is to build your own intuition…| chengweihu.com
Product and game designers often neglect the physical spaces where users interact with their products. The same app feels different in a…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Three factors that make an entertainment experience interesting: Inherent Interest (natural appeal), Poetry of Presentation (aesthetic…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes." — Marcel Proust Quote Three things came to my…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
No one wants to hear anything you ever have to say unless you give them a reason to listen. It's your responsibility to entertain them and…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"Intensity is the price of excellence." — Warren Buffet Quote This quote is from the book Snowball, where Warren Buffett explains his reasons for acquiring Ben…| chengweihu.com
Bomb Under the Table Theory: If you want the audience to care deeply and stay hooked, create 15 minutes of suspense instead of 15 seconds of…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Bartle's taxonomy breaks down game players' motivations by how they engage with game elements (Act/Interact) and where they focus on (World…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Age plus adaptability is what makes a building come to be loved. The building learns from its occupants, and the occupants learn from it too…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"Life is an obscure hobo, bumming a ride on the omnibus of art." — Maxwell H. Brock Quote Love these beautiful opening lines from Maxwell H…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"There's nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept" — Ansel Adams Quote Beautiful slide decks with no real message. Articles with stylish wordplay…| chengweihu.com
How well we remember things is based on the brain's prediction of its usefulness in a given situation. Predicted utility influences fidelity…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Historical periods have unique and often hidden assumptions that shape the structure of knowledge, making past ways of thinking…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Avoid making any important decision when you are either hungry, angry, lonely, or tired (HALT). Just halt when you are HALT. Article: The…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Art is like the hair of society. Although art and literature may seem optional in daily life, they are what endure when people and societies…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Books quietly offer friendship when you feel lonely, clarity when confused, and peace when troubled. Each book holds someone's living…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
How does design help users achieve their goals? Examine your design using the framework of the Seven Stages of the Action Cycle: Goal, Plan…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Six fundamental psychological concepts for designing good products: Affordances, signifiers, constraints, mappings, feedback, and conceptual…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Working hard isn't just about attitude. Working hard and trying your best every time is a skill that can be trained to differentiate players…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Distributed cognition theory shows how our thinking naturally extends into our external tools, environments, and interactions. This…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Fair use decisions in copyright law rely on four factors: purpose of use, nature of work, amount taken, and market effect. Article: Training…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Duolingo prioritizes engagement over effectiveness because you cannot teach someone who has quit. Unlike schools that can keep students…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
The "will to think" is the persistent unwillingness or inability to lie to yourself. It requires motivation and conviction to sustain the…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
How to cultivate deep understanding: Defamiliarization, Original Seeing, Three Examples, Direct Experience, and Rapid Feedback Loops…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Say the Thing: Getting to the truth is more important than making people comfortable. When seeing bad ideas or bad execution in the team…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback" — Kent Beck Quote This is from…| chengweihu.com
This is a special version of Weekly I/O. In this Rumination, I will pick learnings that I found worth reviewing in all 50 inputs from Weekly…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
This guy with the name tag "Cheng-Wei Hu" just joined the virtual meeting. How will people greet him? In a "scientific" study, 74% of the…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
One day, you decide that your life's goal is to be depressed. Would you first focus on earning a lot of money to afford the best resources…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
This is still an evolving draft. If you have any feedback or suggestion, welcome to comment on Substack, or send me a message via twitter…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
This is part 2 of the Revisiting Augmenting Human Intellect series, where I break down Douglas Engelbart's Augmenting Human Intellect, the…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
I've been learning tools for thought and intelligence amplification/augmentation recently. After researching a bit more, I found myself…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
這是開始做年度紀錄的第八年。一樣是流水帳形式。 在巴黎散步到 Orsay museum 的路上聽了 Walter Isaacson 上 Lex Fridman 的 podcast，談了他眼中的 Elon Musk 跟 Steve Jobs。我意識到我永遠不能，也不願意像 Elon…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
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中文翻譯版本 Personal rules turn desired behaviors into default behaviors. They are constraints we set during our best moments to avoid making…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Success in science depends less on raw intelligence and more on good taste. Knowing what’s a good problem to pursue and understanding your…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
We live in the best of all possible worlds regardless of what happens. Imperfections contribute to greater beneficial outcomes because…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"Left-brained" analytical thinkers are a myth. The idea that one hemisphere dominates math while the other handles creativity is…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Procrastination is not laziness. It is a useful signal from the brain that something about the task, the mood, or the setting needs…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Many of our life choices are unconsciously guided by cognitive scripts that feel like our own ideas but are actually inherited from past…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
中文翻譯版本 Time dedicated to writing is my single most valuable investment in learning. Having written over four hundred pieces in the past few…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
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C. S. Lewis writing advice: Turn off the Radio. Always write with the ear, not the eye. You should hear every sentence you write as if it…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Programming is not about writing code but about building a theory as a comprehensive mental map of how the pieces fit and why they matter. A…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
When titles become goals, workers chase labels rather than mission success. Palantir uses a single title for all engineers to keep focus on…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Growth imperative in modern economies is a hidden rule that forces everyone to chase bigger output or face decline otherwise. Competition…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"Love and work, work and love, that's all there is." — Sigmund Freud Quote. You can categorize things as either love or work. All there in…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Building an influencer community is like founding a new country. Early TikTok attracted creators the way nations draw migrants with economic…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
There is a core quality that serves as the fundamental indicator of life and spirit in a person, town, building, or nature. This quality is…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Building wonderful products with great care and love is a way of expressing our deep appreciation to the rest of our human species. Book…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Four verbs that define game design in popular strategy games: Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate. Article: 4X 4X (abbreviation of…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"All intelligent people should think primarily in terms of opportunity cost. When deciding whether to do something compare it with the best…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Envy-free cake-cutting shows that resources can be split so everyone thinks they got the best cut. The simple divide and choose method works…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
You think what you want is money, but what you really want is meaning. Thought Many aspects of people's daily work can feel meaningless. We…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
No hurry, no pause. Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Article: Tim Ferriss on X From Tim Ferriss: I routinely write “No hurry, no pause…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Two things to do when feeling stuck: Challenge assumptions or gather more data. Thought In my experience, the least helpful thing to do when…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying." — Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote Don't tell me where your priorities are. Show…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Flynn effect: Average IQ scores increase each decade for most of the twentieth century. Intelligence tests capture not just the innate…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Knowledge doesn't originate from sensory experiences. Instead, it's from the guesses we invented as theories and the "conjecture and…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Stop writing traditional books because AI will answer questions faster than a book can reach readers. Focus on high-frequency writing or…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Six components of a Classic Game Model: Rules, Variable and measurable outcomes, Values on those outcomes, Player effort, Player attachment…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Stop waiting to feel ready. Ready is not a feeling. It's a decision. Quote I forgot where I found this quote, but I hope this serves as your…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Best definition of Game: A problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude. Alternative: A rule-based formal system with a…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
The CCAF Instructional Design Model: Engaging and meaningful learning experience requires Context, Challenge, Activity, and Feedback (CCAF…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Great copywriting passes three tests: Can you visualize the words? Can you falsify the words? Can nobody else write this? Video: Learn…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
The Keynesian Beauty Contest: How predicting what others will do rather than making personal judgments leads to seemingly irrational market…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
This is a special version of Weekly I/O. In this Rumination, I will pick some inputs that I found worth reviewing from Weekly I/O#51 to #6…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Last year, I had the opportunity to travel to Europe for the first time. During my trip, I spent about a month exploring the continent and…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Our memories can be easily altered by simple changes in wording or external suggestions. When watching the same traffic accident, people…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Wittgenstein's language games: Words don't have fixed meanings tied to things or ideas but derive their meaning from how we use them in…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Six elements of simplicity to make a habit easier to form: Time, Money, Physical Effort, Brain Cycles, Social Deviance, and Non-routine…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Patent laws should be stronger in industries with a high "innovation-to-imitation cost ratio," like pharmaceuticals, and weaker in fields…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
An antilibrary is a collection of unread books reminding you how much you still don't know. Instead of being a trophy case for finished…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
User habits develop when products consistently guide users through triggers, actions, variable rewards, and investments. This four-step hook…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
When asked if he felt pressure from fans' expectations, Kobe Bryant responded, "Their expectations will never be higher than my own. Never…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Happiness from work you love should be measured in weeks, even though you'd prefer immediate pleasure this second. It should also be cool…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Stripe's Operating principle: Be politely relentless. Book: Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building I was reading the…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Tinbergen's Four Questions: When understanding animal (or human) behaviors, ask how a behavior works, how it develops, why it is adaptive…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Survivors of bridge jump suicide attempts often report immediate regret because the abrupt interruption of jumping takes them out of the…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Teach verbs and principles instead of nouns. By teaching how things work and how they interact, we help students transform static facts into…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
If you don't have the desire to buy something, it's as good as already owning it. Thought Just a shower thought. If you don't want something…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"And death i think is no parenthesis" — E. E. Cummings Poem: since feeling is first Love this poem from E. E. Cummings (or stylized as e e…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Last year, I had the opportunity to travel to Europe for the first time. During my trip, I spent about a month exploring the continent and…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Position is the most powerful visual variable in graphics because it leverages our innate spatial reasoning, making complex data instantly…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
How to read 3X faster? Train your eyes instead of your brain to leverage peripheral vision and move faster line by line. Article: Scientific…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." When in doubt, get closer. Article: Vintage prints by war photographer…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Looking at the horizon relaxes your brain. That's why walking outdoors oftentimes helps your thinking. Podcast: Josh Waitzkin: The Art of…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
"Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself." — Glennon Doyle Quote…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed
Last year, I had the opportunity to travel to Europe for the first time. During my trip, I spent about a month exploring the continent and…| Gatsby Starter Blog RSS Feed