Chad Aaron Hall

Your repertoire should be private. Yes, entirely private. The moment you have it open to other people, you're now trying to impress. It changes the entire dynamic of your personal library. Imagine you have your bookshelf exposed at home, for every guest to see. And you make a point of only putting beautiful books on the shelf. Agreeable books.... See more

Post-it notes are so powerful because they have a spatial relationship to their context.

Microelectronics—in the form of personal computing and the internet—did indeed destroy 3.5 million jobs in the U.S., according to a 2017 McKinsey Global Institute report. But the same report calculated that those technologies have created 19.3 million new jobs since 1980, yielding a net gain of 15.8 million jobs. That's about 10 percent of the... See more

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Cultivate intellectual humility

The world is messy and full of ambiguities. Intellectual humility is about embracing complexity instead of trying to collapse all of our uncertainty into a neat, binary ideology.

Consider what he is saying. Not only will Meta’s curation on feeds like Instagram and Facebook be entirely algorithmic, but the content will largely be produced by algorithms, too. No longer will there be middlemen—your aunt, a friend from high school, or a Taylor Swift fan account—that you are responding to. Instead, you’ll be interacting directly... See more