dopamine is not the molecule of pleasure; it’s the molecule of drive

— Andrew Huberman: The Optimal Morning Routine

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey explained why succinctly in an email he sent out to the whole company. "If you have to use someone else’s name or authority to get a point across, there is little merit to the point (you might not believe it yoursel), If you believe something ro be correct, focus on showing your work to prove it. Authority derives

Some lessons I have taken away so far:

• 8 hours of sleep

• always be in the present, focus because trying to catch up later is going to be even more difficult and tiresome

• you can’t take care of others unless you take care of yourself

• rituals are VERY understated — people may not understand and it could possibly come off as selfish but you need that r

When the facts change, I change my mind

— John Maynard Keynes

Instead of asking an implicitly judgmental question like, "Is this a person with high or low potential?" we encouraged managers to ask themselves questions like,

"What growth trajectory does each person on my team want to be on right now?" or "Have I given everybody opportunities that are in line with what they really want?" or "What growth trajecto

people living in post-Internet society may no longer have an unconscious

— Byung-Chul Han

Eichhorn responds to the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's 1970s concept of "cultural capital": the fluency in forms of high culture that could bestow social status and help members of elite classes to identify one another.

Cultural capital is knowing that cashmere is a more aspirational fabric than cotton or that a Jackson Pollock painting is much mor

you know it’s a new shoe by the way it squeaks against the floor

on kindle, no one can see the type of book you are reading

you would never expect a feed to end anymore.