Agalia Tan
- To quote Derek Sivers, "If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs."
the law of attraction
- By drawing lines in the sand around your values, your expectations, your emotional well-being, and your belief systems, you’re not just protecting yourself—you’re defining yourself. You’re signalling both who you are and who you want your tribe to be.
from Forty Years, Forty Lessons
Everything is temporary. When a mood is so overwhelming we tend to mistake the intensity of it for the longevity of it
things you should remember and reminders to trust the process
- You can make a thing so perfect that it’s ruined.
from What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture by Derek Thompson
He said that it’s a very good idea that after you write a little bit, stop and then copy it. Because while you’re copying it, you’re thinking about it, and it’s giving you other ideas. And that’s the way I work. And it’s marvelous, just wonderful, the relationship between working and copying.
from Seek funny leaps by Mason Currey
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
- the quantitative revolution in culture is a living creature that consumes data and spits out homogeneity.
from What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture by Derek Thompson