alex

@alexwastaken

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Opinionated people on social media fall into five categories: Principled-Brave: Say what they think regardless of what's popular Principled-Timid: Say what they think when it's safe to do so Bandwagoner: Say whatever's... See more

Tim Urban

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Greatness

Frame of preference

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A goal asks “what do I want?” but a theme asks “who am I?”

growth without Goals

Part of the activation energy required to start any task comes from the picture you get in your head when you imagine doing it. It may not be that going for a run is actually costly; but if it feels costly, if the picture in your head looks like a slog, then you will need a bigger expenditure of will to lace up.

Slowness seems to make a special... See more

James Somers • Speed Matters: Why Working Quickly Is More Important Than It Seems

compelling argument in favor of speed

I spoke to an ex Shopify employee today. He told me about what employees call a “Toby Tornado”. It made me appreciate Toby Lutke (CEO) even more. It goes like this: Toby follows random Slack channels across the company. He would sometimes drop a message in one of them and tell everyone that the project they’re... See more

Itai Damti x.com

Management & Leadership

Coming back on here after a week away I’m practically knocked over by the sheer quantity of opinions – for a few minutes it just seems so strange that people enjoy spending so much of their time telling other people how they feel about various things! Of course I’ll be fully back into it myself in no time… still, I would like to hold onto the... See more

Oliver Burkeman substack.com