Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
“No one can play a game alone. One cannot be human by oneself. There is no selfhood where there is no community. We do not relate to others as the persons we are; we are who we are in relating to others. Simultaneously the others with whom we are in relation are themselves in relation. We cannot relate to anyone who is not also relating to us. Our... See more
James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
Every statistic you come across, everything you read in a textbook, everything you learn from parents or teachers, everything you see or read in the news or on social media, every tenet of conventional wisdom—it’s all indirect knowledge. That’s why perhaps the most important skill of a skilled thinker is knowing when to trust.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
A helpful syntax:
[I/We] + [verb] + [people] + [achieve a result]
verb could be help, unlock, teach, nurture etc,.
people: who do you work with? or help? leaders, visionaries, mom’s and pop’s, the next generation.
achieve a result: what do you help these people accomplish?
I think that kind of environmental design where it's like okay I'm going to go out and the only computer I'll bring with me is my daylight and all it'll have on this is blank activities that I've pre-selected to be good for me and so then it's not daylight versus dopamine addictive Loops it's daylight versus picking your nose and I think that is... See more
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“Communication is about what is received, not what is intended. If there is a gap between what you are saying and what they are hearing, you have to find a new way to say it.”
Humans in more or less our current modern form have walked the earth for roughly three hundred thousand years. For all but the last ten thousand or so of these many years, we lived as seminomadic hunters and gatherers. These timescales are sufficiently vast for the insistent logics of natural selection to adapt our bodies and brains toward an
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
