Christopher Murphy

“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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“Good listening, when it works, reveals new worlds beneath the surface of people’s words.“

-Charles Duhigg

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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.

I wrote a bit about my dad and the importance of working on meaningful problems.

www.imminentmurphy.com/2025/06/30/g...

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.

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**

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"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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"Indefinite attitudes to the future explain what’s most dysfunctional in our world today.“

-Peter Thiel

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As a programmer
it is the closest thing the world has to magic

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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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

-Maya Angelou

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"If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.”

-Frank Wilczek

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"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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“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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“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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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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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.

"Many who have learned
from Hesiod the countless names
of gods and monsters
never understand
that night and day are one.”

-Heraclitus

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YouTube video by ManticoreEscapee Buckaroo Banzai End Credits (Textless Version)

For the youngs who have no idea what I’m talking about

I wrote a bit about the importance of “Visibility of System Status” in #productmanagement. elezea.com/2025/03/ack-...

One of the really special things about Sesame Street was always these little art films that were less about teaching a specific thing than they were about instilling a sort of meditative sense of wonder at how the world works.

“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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“Candor isn’t cruel. It does not destroy. On the contrary, any successful feedback system is built on empathy, on the idea that we are all in this together, that we understand your pain because we’ve experienced it ourselves.”

-Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace

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Obsidian is now free for work Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.

Obsidian is now free for work.

Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site.

obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...

In severance terms, LinkedIn is for innies