Christopher Murphy
@imminentmurphy.com
A product manager who tends to share the advice he wishes someone had reminded him about yesterday.
“Bureaucracies form when people’s jobs are tied strictly to rules and procedures rather than the effect those things are supposed to have on the world.”
-Scott Berkun
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-Scott Berkun
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November 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“Bureaucracies form when people’s jobs are tied strictly to rules and procedures rather than the effect those things are supposed to have on the world.”
-Scott Berkun
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-Scott Berkun
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"Gray hair signals an enhanced ability to survive—conditional on having reached the gray hair stage, a man is likely to be more resistant to the vagaries of life.”
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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October 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Gray hair signals an enhanced ability to survive—conditional on having reached the gray hair stage, a man is likely to be more resistant to the vagaries of life.”
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“Place a monkey in a cage, and it is the same as a pig, not because it isn’t clever and quick, but because it has no place to freely exercise its capabilities.”
-Huainanzi
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-Huainanzi
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July 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Place a monkey in a cage, and it is the same as a pig, not because it isn’t clever and quick, but because it has no place to freely exercise its capabilities.”
-Huainanzi
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-Huainanzi
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This is a story I've been wanting to write for so long — how a teeny, tiny gaming controller became an essential tool for med students.
8BitDo's Micro gaming controllers have found an unexpected audience: medical students, who use them to study with the Anki flashcard program. @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social reports: www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...
How One Tiny Gaming Controller Became an Essential Studying Tool
8BitDo's Micro gaming controller has found an unexpected audience: medical students, who use them with the Anki flashcard program.
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July 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is a story I've been wanting to write for so long — how a teeny, tiny gaming controller became an essential tool for med students.
I wrote a bit about my dad and the importance of working on meaningful problems.
www.imminentmurphy.com/2025/06/30/g...
www.imminentmurphy.com/2025/06/30/g...
Good work. Real problems.
In which I reflect on my father’s recent passing and the …
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July 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I wrote a bit about my dad and the importance of working on meaningful problems.
www.imminentmurphy.com/2025/06/30/g...
www.imminentmurphy.com/2025/06/30/g...
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Designing for AI or any kind of experience w/machine response always requires solving for trust. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the AI has to be 100% correct. But it does mean that the user should have agency to question or change the output, or know the range of uncertainty.
June 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Designing for AI or any kind of experience w/machine response always requires solving for trust. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the AI has to be 100% correct. But it does mean that the user should have agency to question or change the output, or know the range of uncertainty.
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As of this morning, Deploy Empathy is only 9 (!!) copies away from selling 5,000 copies
So I’ve reduced the paperback to $£€ 10. If you’ve wanted to get copies for your team, today is the day!
**today only**
🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/Deploy-Empat...
🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/Deploy-Empat...
So I’ve reduced the paperback to $£€ 10. If you’ve wanted to get copies for your team, today is the day!
**today only**
🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/Deploy-Empat...
🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/Deploy-Empat...
June 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
As of this morning, Deploy Empathy is only 9 (!!) copies away from selling 5,000 copies
So I’ve reduced the paperback to $£€ 10. If you’ve wanted to get copies for your team, today is the day!
**today only**
🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/Deploy-Empat...
🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/Deploy-Empat...
So I’ve reduced the paperback to $£€ 10. If you’ve wanted to get copies for your team, today is the day!
**today only**
🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/Deploy-Empat...
🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/Deploy-Empat...
"Adopt this ruthless strategy toward the past: Burn all the books, and train yourself to react to circumstances as they happen.”
-Robert Greene
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-Robert Greene
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June 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"Adopt this ruthless strategy toward the past: Burn all the books, and train yourself to react to circumstances as they happen.”
-Robert Greene
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-Robert Greene
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As a programmer
it is the closest thing the world has to magic
it is the closest thing the world has to magic
May 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
As a programmer
it is the closest thing the world has to magic
it is the closest thing the world has to magic
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The creator of Vim, Bram Moolenaar, allegedly wrote the entire initial version of Vim using only a magnetized needle and a steady hand to directly manipulate bits on a hard drive. Thus, Vim is pure, made without using any other text editor. #vim
May 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The creator of Vim, Bram Moolenaar, allegedly wrote the entire initial version of Vim using only a magnetized needle and a steady hand to directly manipulate bits on a hard drive. Thus, Vim is pure, made without using any other text editor. #vim
”We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
-Ray Bradbury
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-Ray Bradbury
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May 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
”We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
-Ray Bradbury
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-Ray Bradbury
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April 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"As the economy changes, and our capacity to achieve creative insights becomes more important than ever, the need for fast originality is even more urgent.“
-Charles Duhigg
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-Charles Duhigg
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April 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"As the economy changes, and our capacity to achieve creative insights becomes more important than ever, the need for fast originality is even more urgent.“
-Charles Duhigg
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-Charles Duhigg
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“Instead of seeing philosophy as an end to which one aspires, see it as something one applies. Not occasionally, but over the course of a life - making incremental progress along the way. Sustained execution, not shapeless epiphanies.”
-Ryan Holiday
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-Ryan Holiday
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April 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“Instead of seeing philosophy as an end to which one aspires, see it as something one applies. Not occasionally, but over the course of a life - making incremental progress along the way. Sustained execution, not shapeless epiphanies.”
-Ryan Holiday
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-Ryan Holiday
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“Every individual is unavoidably an investor, too. When you choose a career, you act on your belief that the kind of work you do will be valuable decades from now.”
-Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
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-Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
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April 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Every individual is unavoidably an investor, too. When you choose a career, you act on your belief that the kind of work you do will be valuable decades from now.”
-Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
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-Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
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Proprietary formats rot: https://www.imminentmurphy.com/2025/04/10/proprietary-formats-rot.html
April 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Proprietary formats rot: https://www.imminentmurphy.com/2025/04/10/proprietary-formats-rot.html
“If you want to kill creativity: Get five hours of sleep a night, fight traffic for two hours a day, and start each day with a piping hot thermos of a psychoactive drug. This is the unfortunate and inescapable reality of most Americans today.”
-David Kadavy
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-David Kadavy
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April 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“If you want to kill creativity: Get five hours of sleep a night, fight traffic for two hours a day, and start each day with a piping hot thermos of a psychoactive drug. This is the unfortunate and inescapable reality of most Americans today.”
-David Kadavy
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-David Kadavy
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I used to think that every time I join a new company I’m going to try to replicate the last best team I was a part of. But I no longer think that. I’m open to the secret sauce of each person and what they can teach me. Whatever process we create is unique to us, our challenges and aspirations.
March 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I used to think that every time I join a new company I’m going to try to replicate the last best team I was a part of. But I no longer think that. I’m open to the secret sauce of each person and what they can teach me. Whatever process we create is unique to us, our challenges and aspirations.