Andrew Tam
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Andrew Tam
- An interesting observation in Maslow's work on self-actualized people is that they tend to be less "introspective" than others. Meaning they spend less time thinking about themselves and their feelings. But they are more attuned to their inner compass when *acting on the world*.
- If all you did this year was survive, then you did enough. Sometimes, that's all we can do.
Paraphrased from Reddit
there is nothing meaningful enough to make you happy that could not make you sad if you lost it
From the "Can You Imagine?" zine
you become what you believe.
- The only way for life to not feel so hard is to just see how it goes The opposite of this is believing things are supposed to be a certain way, and that it's somehow bad if things are not You're this age, with this much money, at this stage, etc. Nothing is ever objectively… Show more
No More Boring Apps | !Boring Software
- This is an important point. A lot of the most successful people, not just in startups but in many fields, do what they do because there's something they want to exist, or some mystery they want solved, and no one else is working on it.
Good design is no longer good enough
Writing is often treated as a project of making things, one piece at a time, but you write from who you are and what you care about and what true voice is yours and from leaving all the false voices and wrong notes behind, and so underneath the task of writing a particular piece is the general one of making a self who can make the work you are mean
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