David Kadavy

Thinking of switching from X to Bluesky specifically because X's search is broken. My micro-blogging is mostly personal reference of ideas and notes-to-self, and that requires working search.

How's the search function on Bluesky?

You can’t unsee some things, but I don’t recall ever feeling I couldn’t un-read. Yet another reason to default to reading.

To start note-taking, think of “cell division”

Start with one note: “Inbox”. Dump into that until you’re ready to divide into a new note, then another, and another.

You’ll eventually have a bunch of folders and notes and your unique way of organizing, and it will look like you planned it.

Things are happening all the time, many of them are lucky, and so lucky things are happening all the time.

Switching from the exploration mode to execution mode on a creative project is like folding a drop of ink in a piece of paper, opening it, then deciding whether you see an angel or demon.

Procrastination is the present framemogging your future.

Seriously though do the kids understand that we had basically no electronic media on-demand growing up? Pre-internet, I grew up without even home video rentals. Recorded music was expensive, books were expensive, my town had no book shops or record stores, we had no movie theater

Cold Spring Harbor is an amazing album, with interesting stories behind it!

The popular saying is “Sleep on it,” but we rarely use incubation intentionally.

If you need to think hard about something, jot down notes about it for 5 minutes, then go to bed. In the morning you’ll have the solution. It’s magic!

Your mind is a building that starts burning when you wake up. What you create with the first hour of your day is who you rescue.

Something I believe but can’t prove is people who read books are increasingly not on social media at all.

Have many ideas, start a few, finish even fewer.

"Why are you so petrified of biscuits? Here, can you handle this?..."

Home is where your preferences and habits can balloon from mild neuroses into full-blown disorders.

I would tell you that I bought it but I’m too ashamed to admit that I waited for a sale.

If you're going to send an authentication code to my email every time, what is the point of my password?

Every streaming service should have subtitles on every movie in every language, AI-generated.

Why don’t they?

Writer’s block is often caused by trying to take a deductive approach to what’s better served by an inductive process.

You’re expecting to write something true. But to get to the truth you have to be willing to first risk writing something false.

Today, a hummingbird came to my lunch table and floated in front of my face several seconds, looking right at me.

It was crazy.

I wonder if it was the same one I rescued from my house a year ago.

Creations can’t be consumed until they’re crafted. Innovations can’t have impact until they’re implemented.

You might have a handful of lasting memories of awkward interactions that happened IRL. With social media you can keep shoveling them into your noggin till there's no more room.

What if the meaning of life, besides four hours deep work, is to season your skillet?

We believe we're on the cusp of AGI because it helps us avoid the inconvenient truth that LLMs show us our thinking isn't that original.

Your mind is like a body of water, which must circulate. If your mind doesn’t meditate, it stagnates.

Main Character Syndrome is a scourge on society, but viewing your life's story as that of a main character is actually quite useful.

The only thing funnier than a coin named Dogshit is a coin named Dogshit2

Just distilled my first gallon of water with my new water distiller.

This is what it removed from my tap water.

Actually no, they take the same percentage they always have and have pretty generous or at least competitive royalties.

Just I’ve been selling directly to readers more!

I believe now more than ever that spending a lot of time meditating is a very productive activity. With technology changing so fast in the age of AI, and more and more information coming at us, it’s increasingly true that being effective is not a matter of how much of your time you spend in motion.

That is what some inhabitants of Margaritaville claim