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2 years

i increasingly think there’s intense cruelty to shilling self-care as the solution for ppl who are clearly craving purpose

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working theory that being creative is less about originality and more about having the executional intensity to make many ideas real coupled with a high capacity to resist the fear of humiliation

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every super smart person i know is obsessed with how manipulating the meaning of words allows a person to warp the world

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every insanely interesting person i know seems to have been completely comfortable being boring for a very long time while they investigated what exactly about their interests was interesting to them

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This is so funny to me.

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so sick of seeing smart young ppl pursue regular rat races but then paint their morally-murky work as being mission-driven in order to signal that they're a good person. subtly lying to yourself creates reality distortion ripples that degrade your ability to see solutions clearly

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Mesmerized by creation spaces. Silvia Bächli, Steve Jobs, Dieter Roth, Ralph Erskine

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SF film came back ✨

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My thesis is out! "Computers and Creativity" asks: How can we utilize the full potential of creative thought and computational actualization to enable human innovation? In fewer words: How can we make 💻s better 🚴‍♂️s of the creative 🧠? 1/5

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today's my bday and i'm starting a company! @mothminds is a platform that makes it extremely easy for anyone to start their own grants program — allowing you to directly invest in individuals doing work you believe in. why does this matter? here's why:

Moth Fund

MF is an early-stage-focused venture capital firm managed by Molly Mielke.

www.mothfund.com

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i don't want a new cryptocurrency i want a new type of business legal structure that incentivizes you to actually do good in the world while making money

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remote work is hard in part because it's exhausting to feel a pressure to constantly signal that you exist

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my ode to cable management and tiny lamps :~)

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some of the most subtlety powerful ppl possess this persuasive blend of supportive friend-like warmth and aspirational leader-like magnetism that lets them make huge things happen while always appearing to just be hanging out

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wish more ppl treated precise communication in convo more like practicing a sport with the goal of growing the other person's understanding and less like playing a game to win some imaginary intelligence status symbol by using exclusively esoteric/essentially useless words

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3 years

I'm graduating from UCLA at 20 today! 👩‍🎓 I refused to buy a cap and gown for my photoshoot, so here we are.

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3 years

Made the thing! A resource hub/mini curriculum for learning about the history of computing, the design of user interfaces, and why we interact with these machines the way that we do. WIP and in no way comprehensive — keep sending things my way :)

Computing History Hub | Notion

← Back to my site | Twitter | Last updated @March 18, 2021 | Acknowledgements: All of the wonderful replies in this thread, Wikipedia, & Chet Corcos' list

mollymielke.notion.site

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New girl on the block + in the @NotionHQ doc 🥳

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there should be way more jobs for ppl to just research and write abt all kinds of interesting stuff all the time

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what are you trying to tell me, printer?

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every founder boy wants the exact same type of girl and she's always a slightly less ambitious fellow INTJ

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when

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Day 2 of having actual fun with an app? incredible

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I wonder how much creative potential is lost due to the fact that mutts (people with multiple areas of expertise) quickly get pushed to either specialize or dilute their strengths with admin work by becoming a founder/freelancer/researcher/vc

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the internet’s weird bc there’s always the possibility that a small sliver of your personality finds product market fit and you get trained to turn that sliver into a character that passes along immeasurable returns to your real life self

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guess whose third first day it is at @figmadesign :-) psyched to work on collaboration with the fantastic folks that believed in me from the very beginning (lots of 💜 for the fellow → intern → full-time pipeline)

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seems like everyone has a distinct career turning point when they realize how orgs actually work and why so many worthwhile ideas haven’t been realized. you either accept it and mold yourself to the system until it becomes unbearable, or you resolve to define work for yourself

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pretty sure the smart ones are the people with no firm formula of who they are and instead are just crazy curious about all the versions that they might become

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2 years

considering we owe our entire (limited) understanding of the world to the curiosity of human beings, it's kinda weird how little we seem to care about actually fostering more of it

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3 years

I think about the interfaces in movies a lot. 2001 in particular

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2 years

few feelings are better than speaking to ppl who match your speed of thought and level of comfort sparring over ideas

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3 years

What do you call someone who's really good at finding interesting things on the internet?

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4 years

Another resource: an interview prep template I made for my student org that's also widely applicable for anyone recruiting (forever on a democratization-of-resources-kick). There's also a little Figma prototype thank you card template in there for fun.✨

Interview Prep Template | Notion

Job Description

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2 years

crazy how much damage a charismatic person without awareness of their own power can cause

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3 years

mentally here

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cannot stop laughing at UCLA offering “virtual travel study” in place of study abroad. do they just screenshare google street view or what

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all i'm saying is that writing in your own voice about how the world works, why, and defining new words on how it could be different definitely improves your life and might just will parts of that different world you defined into existence

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i think we underappreciate the strength of character required of a person to pick breadth over depth. all the incentives push you to join a tribe and take on a pre-packaged identity — choosing not to is almost an act of rebellion

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weird that the norm is to change jobs in order to get a project that interests you as opposed to companies making it easier for employees to invent and own something aligned that they want to work on and then allowing for oscillation once that interest inevitably wanes

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3 years

my main goal in most convos is to find the thing that makes the other person’s eyes sparkle

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2 years

are there any modern programming texts that match the mystique of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs?

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me watching my fav word get poisoned

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nyc architecture snippets

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recently, some favorites.* *And a reminder that women ran this industry when tech jobs were considered menial, only to be sidelined as soon as the industry become profitable.

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it's crazy to me how silicon valley's lack of substantial aesthetics has created a culture where software with any semblance of style feels so magnetic. in a sea of blasé blue-buttoned software, style blows value props out of the water through viscerally communicating value

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it is remarkable how much farther and faster you go once you start surrounding yourself with the ppl who actually act upon their belief in you as opposed to just articulating it

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3 years

nyc summer colors 🎨

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2 years

annoying how everyone assumes if you're not aiming for a specific title you aren't acting ambitious enough. that's a crazy limited conception of power that assumes strength comes purely from legibility. it doesn't. in fact, illegible power is often stronger bc it goes unchecked

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3 years

cool how blowing up your life for the better every once in awhile feels remarkably not risky at all when you're surrounded by the right ppl

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Thank you @figmadesign design team :') The big 2⃣0⃣!

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3 years

Isamu Noguchi's studio/home was a dream.

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2 years

i think abt this all the time

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3 years

maybe part of why your 20s are so hard is that you haven't given up yet on the impossible task of reconciling all the different versions of yourself that exist both in your own head and the many heads of others

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if you're working on something weird or unconventional, pls pls pls write abt it in detail while you're doing it. the most deeply unhelpful and cliche-ridden narrator is the one reflecting on the past through success-tinted glasses

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i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: ppl don't like being around ppl who seem to be purely performing, ppl like being around ppl that make them feel seen

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3 years

heard "internet explorer" might be up for grabs...

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growing thought: granularity⁠ is gorgeous. articulating how you think and feel is an art form that you refine over time. being vague with your desires and faults is avoidance

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it's really odd that "scaling" something usually means "turning a small good thing into a completely different big thing" instead of "increasing the sheer quantity of those small good things"

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hello

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ppl always forget that unless you choose ppl that fully choose you back, you're basically programming yourself to believe you're not worth being chosen

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i think one of the most potential-stifling traps you can get caught in when you’re young is feeling like you’re performing for an audience that will be disappointed by anything less than perfection

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life gets much more interesting once you develop your own theories on how it works and why. the status quo is mostly wrong and assumes the thing you spend most of your life doing (work) is not something you care about and just something you do to retire as soon as possible

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why would you want to "grow up" when you could just refine your best kid traits to move the needle on things you care about while playing with other kids masquerading as adults along the way

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i cannot overstate the damage the film industry has done to all of our satisfaction in relationships by programming us to expect love to be nonstop never-ending limerance

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2 years

oh ya so i’m an editor for @stripepress now (and devoting the majority of my time to metamorphosing @mothminds )! my goal is to increase human agency — both by sowing more inspiration seeds and foraging new pathways that enable the exchange of capital, connection, and belief

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4/ Molly is the creator of @mothminds and a magical designer/writer. She’ll be focused on sourcing books about technology. Saloni is a PhD student at King’s College London and the University of Hong Kong, and founding editor @WorksInProgMag . She’ll source books about science.

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before and after, tiny house edition

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i really do think that the earlier you realize how remarkably rare it is to come across ppl you have both connection and compatibility with, the happier you'll be

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kinda sucks that most systems assume you’re motivated by external validation and not striving for excellence in your own eyes. so even if your internal drive survived schooling’s decades-long assault, you still get plopped into a world that simply wasn’t set up for ppl like you

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impeccable vibes

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hill i'll die on is that we gotta stop pigeonholing ppl as either "thinkers" or "executers." this quickly becomes a prescriptive prophecy that disconnects vision from action. most ppl can do both if you just expect more of them and give them a reason to care

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met a couple in their 60s at the Dune premiere who had apparently seen Lynch's version of this story as one of their first dates, bonded over their shared hatred of it, and been waiting 30+ years for the remake ❤️

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it's funny how much humans hate admitting that relationships live or die by the amount of attention you both give each other. relationships that feel "easy" are only an anomaly in the sense that it probably takes less time than the average to exchange a high quantity of attention

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What are the best resources for learning about the history of software? Books, blogs, films, talks, papers... you name it. Compiling a master list and looking to capture as many gems as possible!

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funny how the way ppl assess risk reveals whether their confidence stems from entitlement vs. compounding competence. it's much easier to be brave when you never really expected to get this far to begin with

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Quite into one-off boring book covers

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is my brain broken by tech or is it ridiculous that writing tools don't have some form of branching and merging

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ppl love to share their strong opinions abt specific cities when usually they’re just talking abt how they felt abt the ppl they spent the most time with and what the experience of commuting was like

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I wanna talk about smalltalk again

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more color, please!

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on why we need dreams and dreamers:

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the venn diagram of people who are genuinely kind, don't take themselves too seriously, and who aren't afraid to respectfully challenge you is exceedingly small but when you find them it's simply wonderful

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are they actually a good listener or have they just singularly mastered the art of mirroring and strategically mentioning your name to make you like them

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Still not over this :') Thank you eternally and a tearful goodbye to my friends @NotionHQ

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"i'm here with you" hits much harder than "i'm here for you"

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ppl gotta stop overcomplicating this: the amount each person celebrates the other directly defines the climate of a relationship. appreciation = warm wind. withholding gratitude = cold spell. i am begging you to literally just tell your homies you love them

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“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all” —Szasz

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too many tech products trying to be a 'home' and not enough aiming to be a studio, treehouse, greenhouse, garage, shed...

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Since we all love diagrams so much, here's some legitimately important ones I came across. We need to change this.

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i actually think the highest ROI thing you can do is get really good at being there for the ppl you love

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Another one: a toolbox of clean (BWOBranding) deck designs for visualizing process, metrics, abstractions, etc. Pick + choose as needed to best serve your work's story 💫

Deck Toolbox | Figma

A good deck is a joy — these slides are meant to be visual prompts to ground your story’s narrative 💬

www.figma.com

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i do think one of the greatest joys in life is collecting little stories and experiences out in the world to bring back to discuss and dissect with your person

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Fav Steve quote: "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile."

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This is some next-level UX writing

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starting something new is a really good way to have perfectionism pounded out of you

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Day 1 working on one of the most *fun*damental of software problems with the incredible folks at @browsercompany ! Psyched to help make the web feel more like home this summer 💙

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there’s this terrible trap that most ppl never bust out of where they’re not comfortable being alone with themselves so they never figure out what they actually think about anything and just take on all the opinions of the ppl they incessantly surround themselves with

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ppl who write a lot are somehow simultaneously the most eloquent and deranged texters of all time

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Japan, a bit ago

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cool commonality i've noticed in ppl that are industry-agnostic: they're wildly good at quickly zeroing in on the biggest (spoken + unspoken) problems a field faces, picking up on how things actually get done, and clearly seeing what beliefs/traditions are holding the space back

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ppl don't talk enough abt how deeply frustrating it is to sit with ambient ambition, esp when all the things you could apply it to feel fake

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