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freedom is less about options, and more about self-discipline. True freedom means cultivating a self-governance that frees you from your inclination t
Pennies and deutsche marks disappear, languages cease to be spoken, and once-popular technologies are abandoned. Over time, many hieroglyphs, wax cyli
To anyone in love with the precious, fleeting things of this world, resistance to disappearance seems natural and proper.
Writing is the connective tissue that creates understanding. We, as social creatures, often better perform rituals to form understanding one on one, b
When you write about yourself solving a problem in vivid, present-tense detail, you’re not just daydreaming: you’re activating your prefrontal cortex
Writing is one of the few tools that can reliably change how you think. It forces you to commit to a line of thought and to turn half-formed ideas int
If we give them the room to breathe, creative works can live multiple lives. The works will stay online for years, decades even. It will make someone
The internet is now under unprecedented pressure from the AI companies that have been unleashed by the very openness and scale the internet enabled. T
The protocols are not as important as the people and communities who connect across them. Part of the ethos of openness is that it’s not about buildin
We believe that a healthy ecosystem competes on innovative features, not critical mass. The social web should be centered around people, not platforms
Build habits and routines that serve your own professional goals. As much as you can, participate in the things that get your name out into your profe
Your skills get you in the room. Your visibility keeps you top of mind. And being top of mind is how you become the go-to person, which is where how y
Positioning’s also about controlling the narrative. Put in the work of helping shape how people see you, consistently. When people see the same themes
When you're building something from scratch, you don't have the luxury of waiting for perfect conditions. And you don’t need perfect conditions anyway
“We’re seeking to make a change in part of the world. How do we find the right people and tell them the right (true) story that helps them get to wher
The better the investor, the simpler the questions. When I started, I was obsessed with jargon, complex questions and spreadsheets. Now I ask things l
Even among the talented who choose a path of building, most take safe, incremental bets — another SaaS company, another turnkey consumer startup, anot
When you're building something from scratch, you don't have the luxury of waiting for perfect conditions. And you don’t need perfect conditions anyway
Policies and proofs of concept can be useful, but they don’t generate economic value. For generative AI to be truly valuable to companies, they need t
The modern creator isn't overwhelmed by a blank page; they're overwhelmed by a bottomless one. AI gives you ever more options, then appoints itself yo
So much opportunity, inspiration, creativity, and possibility lies in applying the skills and experience that you may have from technological discipli
The internet is now under unprecedented pressure from the AI companies that have been unleashed by the very openness and scale the internet enabled. T
What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a t
The more upset I became, the more I felt that my sensitivity towards the paintings was the same sensitivity I held when I was the subject of the photo
To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastin
Gen AI for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on rights man
“You can search and search all your life, but sometimes you need to realise you’ve arrived.”
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
Christians believe purgatory exists because of God’s divine mercy, but even here on earth, perhaps the waiting period is more merciful than we realize
to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur
If we give them the room to breathe, creative works can live multiple lives. The works will stay online for years, decades even. It will make someone
What they don’t see, and what we continue to experience, is that while collaborating can be hard, it’s also a more rewarding, fruitful, and uplifting
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!
Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide
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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera
My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter
Sociologists bemoaned the death of the third place in American Life. Then companies shifted to remote work, and we got rid of second places. We just l
But we can build the kind of world where they don’t have to suffer because of the vagaries of fate, where we decide as a society that people shouldn’t
The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the
First, we climb the school ladder. Then we climb the corporate ladder. And then we climb the status ladder. We go from cradle to cubicle to casket,
the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such e
The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered
TED’S 24 RULES FOR READINGReading shouldn’t be a goal—instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit.It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, someth
