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June 2023 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

June 2023 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

What I Am Reading:

Octopus time

“We humans are forward-facing, gravity-bound plodders. Can the liquid motion of the octopus radicalise our ideas about time?”

For when someone says “I’ve seen this before, it didn’t work”

“If you’re a founder you’ve probably heard someone say “oh, I’ve seen this idea before - it didn’t work” or “isn’t this just like that other thing that person/company X tried?”

As a founder, I heard this dozens of times. It’s likely to come from investors, but you hear it from other founders, potential employees, advisors, customers, even family members. Like it or not, pattern matching is strong.”

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