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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · 10d

"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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📎𝑹𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒆 🌹💙🐾 @roxierose2.bsky.social · Sep 20

Truth!

Every dog is a once in a lifetime dog. Doesn’t matter how many you’ve had each one change issue heals you owns a piece of view and when they go that piece stays theirs forever.

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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Jul 4

“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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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Jul 2

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

-Charles Duhigg

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · Jul 1

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.

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · Jul 1

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.

www.endlessmode.com

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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Jul 1

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

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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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · Jun 22

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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Michele Hansen @mjwhansen.com · Jun 11

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...

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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Jun 1

"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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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · May 26

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

-Peter Thiel

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Wizzkidwas | Play Eternal Sonata @wizzkidwas.bsky.social · May 23

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

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · May 9

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

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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · May 9

”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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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · May 3

“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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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Apr 26

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

-Frank Wilczek

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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Apr 25

"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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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Apr 20

“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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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Apr 12

“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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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Apr 10

Proprietary formats rot: https://www.imminentmurphy.com/2025/04/10/proprietary-formats-rot.html

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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Apr 7

“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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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Apr 3

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iminyourmind.bsky.social @iminyourmind.bsky.social · Apr 4

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Chris Kemple @chriskemple.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · Mar 31

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.

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Christopher Murphy @imminentmurphy.com · Mar 22

"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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