Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Research culminates in some output .
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
I’m thinking about how many people were one or two iterations away from the right formula, but lacked the conviction to stay the course, the understanding that minor, subtle, successive changes can drastically influence outcome. I’m thinking about how self-doubt makes more people abandon a vision than competition or lack of funding ever will.
sari azout • Taste, Conviction, Elon Musk
Other research suggests that income doesn’t have a lasting increase on happiness because people usually adapt to money. In contrast, marriage, family, and health have lasting increases on happiness and are immune to hedonic adaptation
The Happiness Lottery
Elon Musk learned to “know your business from A to Z,” surprising experts by recalling deep technical details about parts and costs in other people’s specialties.
Bob, the furnace maintenance man, popped into the lab, cheered by the news that Trump seemed to be winning. Bob had voted for the first time in his life earlier that day, hoping that Trump would save the factory. Shannon’s father had done the same thing.
Farah Stockman • American Made
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Albert Einstein put it this way:
I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn’t going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.
Collaborative Fund • Lazy Work, Good Work
Bowie In Berlin: A New Career In A New Town by Thomas Jerome Seabrook
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Now I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a
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