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There's a sense in editorial, publishing, and TV spaces that, if you are from a nonwhite background, what you talk about has to be generated from your identity in some way. But if you're a white person you can go anywhere you want. You can talk about Asian cuisines, you can talk about African or African American cuisines, you can talk about South American cuisines.
No Meat Required
Alicia Kennedy
Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A computer has a keyboard, a mouse, and a GUI operating system.
Teams have interfaces too. How do you file a bug or make a request? Where and when does the team collaborate with any other team?
The two critical components of a good interface are that it be narrow and well-defined.
My Heroku Values · GitHub
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History is mostly the study of surprising events. But it is often used by investors and economists as an unassailable guide to the future. Do you see the irony? Do you see the problem? It is smart to have a deep appreciation for economic and investing history. History helps us calibrate our expectations, study where people tend to go wrong, and offers a rough guide of what tends to work. But it is not, in any way, a map of the future.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
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