Kirill So
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🤖 @earlyadopterhq @MakeKeepsake
🏝️ Nomading with @sarahsokhan
💭 http://kirillso.com
💸 Tiny cheques @Replit @calmfund
🌏 Global citizen
10. Love is leverage
“It’s one of the most freeing feelings I’ve ever had.”
The freedom to stretch creatively comes from the safety of a deep connection. When someone’s got you, you can risk more.
“It’s one of the most freeing feelings I’ve ever had.”
The freedom to stretch creatively comes from the safety of a deep connection. When someone’s got you, you can risk more.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
10. Love is leverage
“It’s one of the most freeing feelings I’ve ever had.”
The freedom to stretch creatively comes from the safety of a deep connection. When someone’s got you, you can risk more.
“It’s one of the most freeing feelings I’ve ever had.”
The freedom to stretch creatively comes from the safety of a deep connection. When someone’s got you, you can risk more.
9. Design for Time Travel
“Create milestones for your future self to go back in time to.”
Leave artifacts: journals, music, meals, and locations. Memory is spatial. You can purposefully engineer your future nostalgia.
“Create milestones for your future self to go back in time to.”
Leave artifacts: journals, music, meals, and locations. Memory is spatial. You can purposefully engineer your future nostalgia.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9. Design for Time Travel
“Create milestones for your future self to go back in time to.”
Leave artifacts: journals, music, meals, and locations. Memory is spatial. You can purposefully engineer your future nostalgia.
“Create milestones for your future self to go back in time to.”
Leave artifacts: journals, music, meals, and locations. Memory is spatial. You can purposefully engineer your future nostalgia.
8. Supply your own light
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
A quote from Kubrick. You can’t control the world. But you can control your inner state.
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
A quote from Kubrick. You can’t control the world. But you can control your inner state.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
8. Supply your own light
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
A quote from Kubrick. You can’t control the world. But you can control your inner state.
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
A quote from Kubrick. You can’t control the world. But you can control your inner state.
7. Earth intelligence
“Earth is not a vehicle, but a body… developing senses and intelligence.”
We aren't just using technology, but woven into it. Our roads and networks connect us like a nervous system, making us part of something bigger that is becoming sentient.
“Earth is not a vehicle, but a body… developing senses and intelligence.”
We aren't just using technology, but woven into it. Our roads and networks connect us like a nervous system, making us part of something bigger that is becoming sentient.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
7. Earth intelligence
“Earth is not a vehicle, but a body… developing senses and intelligence.”
We aren't just using technology, but woven into it. Our roads and networks connect us like a nervous system, making us part of something bigger that is becoming sentient.
“Earth is not a vehicle, but a body… developing senses and intelligence.”
We aren't just using technology, but woven into it. Our roads and networks connect us like a nervous system, making us part of something bigger that is becoming sentient.
6. Long-term thinking
“I try to have the longest possible time horizon I can, in both directions.”
Zoom out. Study what’s lasted 1,000 years. Ask what might endure 30 more. Longevity is a compass. See the Lindy effect above again.
“I try to have the longest possible time horizon I can, in both directions.”
Zoom out. Study what’s lasted 1,000 years. Ask what might endure 30 more. Longevity is a compass. See the Lindy effect above again.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
6. Long-term thinking
“I try to have the longest possible time horizon I can, in both directions.”
Zoom out. Study what’s lasted 1,000 years. Ask what might endure 30 more. Longevity is a compass. See the Lindy effect above again.
“I try to have the longest possible time horizon I can, in both directions.”
Zoom out. Study what’s lasted 1,000 years. Ask what might endure 30 more. Longevity is a compass. See the Lindy effect above again.
5. Digital durability
“If you want your writing readable in 2060, it should be readable by a computer from the 1960s.”
Your thoughts should outlive your tools. Tech changes, but ideas shouldn’t vanish. If your notes need a server to exist, they are anti-Lindy.
“If you want your writing readable in 2060, it should be readable by a computer from the 1960s.”
Your thoughts should outlive your tools. Tech changes, but ideas shouldn’t vanish. If your notes need a server to exist, they are anti-Lindy.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
5. Digital durability
“If you want your writing readable in 2060, it should be readable by a computer from the 1960s.”
Your thoughts should outlive your tools. Tech changes, but ideas shouldn’t vanish. If your notes need a server to exist, they are anti-Lindy.
“If you want your writing readable in 2060, it should be readable by a computer from the 1960s.”
Your thoughts should outlive your tools. Tech changes, but ideas shouldn’t vanish. If your notes need a server to exist, they are anti-Lindy.
4. Giving a damn and instinctive care
“If you’re not in love with the thing you’re making, how is anyone going to love it?”
Indifference is obvious. Attention to detail builds trust without words, it signals seriousness and intention.
“If you’re not in love with the thing you’re making, how is anyone going to love it?”
Indifference is obvious. Attention to detail builds trust without words, it signals seriousness and intention.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
4. Giving a damn and instinctive care
“If you’re not in love with the thing you’re making, how is anyone going to love it?”
Indifference is obvious. Attention to detail builds trust without words, it signals seriousness and intention.
“If you’re not in love with the thing you’re making, how is anyone going to love it?”
Indifference is obvious. Attention to detail builds trust without words, it signals seriousness and intention.
3. Principles as ideology
“I just want to have fun building stuff.”
Obsidian has millions of users, no ads, no investors, and a 7-person team. User-aligned incentives and a business model that protects privacy and sovereignty. The key here is sustainability through ownership.
“I just want to have fun building stuff.”
Obsidian has millions of users, no ads, no investors, and a 7-person team. User-aligned incentives and a business model that protects privacy and sovereignty. The key here is sustainability through ownership.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
3. Principles as ideology
“I just want to have fun building stuff.”
Obsidian has millions of users, no ads, no investors, and a 7-person team. User-aligned incentives and a business model that protects privacy and sovereignty. The key here is sustainability through ownership.
“I just want to have fun building stuff.”
Obsidian has millions of users, no ads, no investors, and a 7-person team. User-aligned incentives and a business model that protects privacy and sovereignty. The key here is sustainability through ownership.
2. Plant creative seeds, then wait.
“I still agree with myself. Therefore, I should post this.”
Let ideas mature and marinate. Publish once they’ve endured time and friction. Depth often comes from patience, not urgency.
“I still agree with myself. Therefore, I should post this.”
Let ideas mature and marinate. Publish once they’ve endured time and friction. Depth often comes from patience, not urgency.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
2. Plant creative seeds, then wait.
“I still agree with myself. Therefore, I should post this.”
Let ideas mature and marinate. Publish once they’ve endured time and friction. Depth often comes from patience, not urgency.
“I still agree with myself. Therefore, I should post this.”
Let ideas mature and marinate. Publish once they’ve endured time and friction. Depth often comes from patience, not urgency.
1. Constraints spark creativity
“You had to work within a certain number of pixels. That’s where all the creativity came from.”
Tiny UI constraints in Winamp skins forced aesthetic decisions. Creativity thrives under tight limits and forces taste. You can't hide behind options.
“You had to work within a certain number of pixels. That’s where all the creativity came from.”
Tiny UI constraints in Winamp skins forced aesthetic decisions. Creativity thrives under tight limits and forces taste. You can't hide behind options.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
1. Constraints spark creativity
“You had to work within a certain number of pixels. That’s where all the creativity came from.”
Tiny UI constraints in Winamp skins forced aesthetic decisions. Creativity thrives under tight limits and forces taste. You can't hide behind options.
“You had to work within a certain number of pixels. That’s where all the creativity came from.”
Tiny UI constraints in Winamp skins forced aesthetic decisions. Creativity thrives under tight limits and forces taste. You can't hide behind options.
I specifically really enjoyed the episode with Steph Ango
@stephango.com CEO of Obsidian, one of the most quietly influential thinkers and builders.
Here are some of my favourite ideas from the pod on creativity, product design, time & digital permanence.
@stephango.com CEO of Obsidian, one of the most quietly influential thinkers and builders.
Here are some of my favourite ideas from the pod on creativity, product design, time & digital permanence.
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I specifically really enjoyed the episode with Steph Ango
@stephango.com CEO of Obsidian, one of the most quietly influential thinkers and builders.
Here are some of my favourite ideas from the pod on creativity, product design, time & digital permanence.
@stephango.com CEO of Obsidian, one of the most quietly influential thinkers and builders.
Here are some of my favourite ideas from the pod on creativity, product design, time & digital permanence.
Its also crazy how much engagement and follows I get here.
If I tweet with 2k followers I get 100 impressions. Its really sad.
If I tweet with 2k followers I get 100 impressions. Its really sad.
May 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Its also crazy how much engagement and follows I get here.
If I tweet with 2k followers I get 100 impressions. Its really sad.
If I tweet with 2k followers I get 100 impressions. Its really sad.
Reposted by Kirill So
Love regulation or hate regulation: it is clear from this case that Apple CANNOT self-regulate
The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator
Think about this
The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator
Think about this
May 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Love regulation or hate regulation: it is clear from this case that Apple CANNOT self-regulate
The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator
Think about this
The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator
Think about this
So true! Didn't realize this actually.
February 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
So true! Didn't realize this actually.
Really enjoyed it. Google invented OKRs to slow everyone else down...
On a serious note, I've seen company of 10 people spending 25% of their time on OKR drafting and evaluations 🤷🏻
On a serious note, I've seen company of 10 people spending 25% of their time on OKR drafting and evaluations 🤷🏻
February 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Really enjoyed it. Google invented OKRs to slow everyone else down...
On a serious note, I've seen company of 10 people spending 25% of their time on OKR drafting and evaluations 🤷🏻
On a serious note, I've seen company of 10 people spending 25% of their time on OKR drafting and evaluations 🤷🏻