Recommendations (and thoughts about those recommendations)

[Status: haven’t written anything in months, feeling guilty, wrote this in 20 minutes, don’t expect quality].

1) Be a contrarian and don’t get feedback on your blog posts

If you write something for a blog, don’t get feedback on it. This doesn’t apply if you’re writing a policy proposal or a master’s thesis or something you think people will actually take really seriously (or chide you if there’s some big and obvious mistake). But for blog posts, it’s more fun to be wrong in interesting ways, and I think it can be useful to throw out lots of very half-baked ideas and see if you come up with anything useful while you’re at it.

Here’s Sam Altman on co-working spaces:

Coworking spaces have two big classes of problems. Number one, they are a band-pass filter. Good ideas — actually, no, great ideas are fragile. Great ideas are easy to kill. An idea in its larval stage — all the best ideas when I first heard them sound bad. And all of us, myself included, are much more affected by what other peo…