Aditya K Suresh
@adityask
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
-Rudyard Kipling
Aditya K Suresh
“There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence – and in the end, you make it look like a quantum leap.”
James Dyson
Social media firms are] coming for every second of your life...And it's not because anyone is bad, it's not because anybody in this company has evil plans or is trying to do this, they're not even doing it consciously. Their entire model is growth. They’re coming for every second of your life. We used to colonize land. Then they realized [let’s go ... See more
Keegan Kelly • Bo Burnham Has Explained the Dumpster Fire That Is Social Media Better Than Anybody
To feel sexy, we need risk and spontaneity. Our phones kill both.
Catherine Shannon • Your Phone Is Why You Don't Feel Sexy
But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more
Jasmine Sun • the scenic route
FS quotes mining
A funny thing happens when you begin to capture competitive differences on paper”, says Harvard Professor
Youngme Moon
in her book
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
, “there is a natural inclination for folks in the competitive set to focus on eliminating differences rather than accentuating them.”
Youngme Moon
in her book
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
, “there is a natural inclination for folks in the competitive set to focus on eliminating differences rather than accentuating them.”
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Behavioral Economics Reading List
fs.blog • Behavioral Economics Reading List
9 elements of flow: 1. There are clear goals every step of the way 2. There is immediate feedback to one's actions 3. There is a balance between challenges and skills 4. Action and awareness are merged 5. Distractions are excluded from consciousness 6. There is no worry of failure 7. Self-consciousness disappears 8. The sense of time becomes distor... See more