Mary Rose Cook's notebook

The public parts of my notebook.

Patrick Collison, Tim Ferriss's podcast

Having your children at the supper table when interesting guests come over.
The Collison installation. When a person agreed to try Stripe, rather than just sending them a link, the Collisons would take the person's laptop and install Stripe right there.
How The Dream Machine is one of the few accurate histories of a technology.
Not focusing on marketing means you're forced to make your thing really good. This is a long term advantage.
Trying new organisational structures has lowish expected value. The traditional structures work fairly well. Getting it wrong is an existential threat.
It's more useful to focus on having great options to choose from, than to focus on making the right choice.

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