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Ash McGrath
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Writer, author, AI optimist 🌈 📚 I publish bi-weekly essays about creativity, AI, and other weird corners of humanity. Subscribe to the newsletter: thought-partner.kit.com
Ash McGrath
In hindsight, my energy was so wrapped up in trying to generate all the momentum upfront that it didn’t occur to me that momentum can only happen when a thing is in motion. Thinking about answering the call wasn’t enough. I had to pick up the phone and trust that I’d find momentum on the other end of the line.
The test of whether people love what they do is whether they'd do it even if they weren't paid for it — even if they had to work at another job to make a living.
-Paul Graham, Do What You Love
What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn't worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world. When you can ask the opinions of people whose judgement you respect, what does it add to consider the opinions of people you don't even know? [4]
This is easy advice to give.
A parent who set an example of loving their work might help their kids more than an expensive house. [3]
How I Build My Personal Knowledge Library W Sari Azout
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Sari Azout’s Building A Library
" I think what’s funny is that I used to marvel for a long time why my best ideas — and by ideas, I don’t mean the ideas about what to write or all of that, but just insights on the truths of my experience, of the human experience, whatever. Those ideas, the best of them came to me at the gym or on my bike or in the shower. I used to have these ela... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Shower thoughts, creative inspiration.
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live ev... See more
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live ev... See more
Maria Popova • Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you wi
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