Adam Zak
@adamzak
Adam Zak
Nutrient Levels in Retail Grocery Stores, or Why You Should Be Buying Your Groceries from Walmart
Carmenaltered.substack.com
Anaïs Nin on why your world grows or shrinks with your nerve:
“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”
“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”
Purpose, as it turns out, isn't static. It isn't something you discover once and then carry around, unchanged. Rather, it’s something you must actively renew and reconnect with, moment to moment. In the Zen tradition, this active renewal of purpose is central to cultivating deep awareness, intentional action, and lasting inner peace.
No.7: The Power of Renewing Your Purpose
Purpose is a work in progress
Rick Lewis
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Honestly Human
I propose that anyone who became highly interested and skilled at prompting their own mind with the same level of fuss that’s being generated around prompting AI, would quickly find the depths and mysteries of their own psyche, imagination, capacity for channeling innovative language and turns of phrase, and arising of ori... See more
4d
Honestly Human
I propose that anyone who became highly interested and skilled at prompting their own mind with the same level of fuss that’s being generated around prompting AI, would quickly find the depths and mysteries of their own psyche, imagination, capacity for channeling innovative language and turns of phrase, and arising of ori... See more
Rick Lewis on Substack
Do this.
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreWhen making new friends, the same rule applies—you have to make it a priority.
Block off just an hour a week to get involved in your community. Put yourself in positions to attract people who have similar interests. Maybe this bites into your work time or, if you’re self-employed, even your finances.
But you have to ask yourself, “What matters most?... See more
Block off just an hour a week to get involved in your community. Put yourself in positions to attract people who have similar interests. Maybe this bites into your work time or, if you’re self-employed, even your finances.
But you have to ask yourself, “What matters most?... See more
How to Make Friends as an Adult
Making friends.
An effective way of quickly getting to the bigger context is applying this exercise, from author Kathy Sierra: Don’t build a better (x). Build a better user of (x). Here are some examples: Don’t build a better (camera). Build a better (photographer). Don’t build a better (business model canvas). Build a better (entrepreneur). Don’t build a better (
... See moreAsh Maurya • Running Lean
Complexity gives a comforting impression of control, while simplicity is hard to distinguish from cluelessness.