Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
As a company grows, the CEO’s job is to personify the WHY. To ooze of it. To talk about it. To preach it. To be a symbol of what the company believes. They are the intention and WHAT the company says and does is their voice.
Simon Sinek • Start With Why
Public allegations and the “court of public opinion” are a highly imperfect patch on a profoundly inadequate justice system.
The Need for Canonicity
Instead of asking "How can I get people to pay?" start asking "How can I become indispensable to my readers?"
Wes Pearce • I Talked to 21 Substack Bestsellers. Here's the 7 Things They Do Differently.
Government responses can use carefully chosen language to answer the question asked rather than the question intended, creating an appearance of transparency while withholding relevant meaning.
When questioned about UFOs, officials might respond about aliens, enabling a denial about alien beings that does not address reports of unidentified flying
“Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”
Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective. The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of... See more
Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective. The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of... See more
Andy • §Note-writing systems
Media and My zettelkasten
To be a sovereign individual now-a-days usually requires being shameless, for shame is the main weapon of the mob. But a funny side effect is that you cannot satirize the shameless. The shameless are immune to it. I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you. Our culture is being filled up with exaggerated caricatures... See more
The universe suddenly hates satire
A simple way of putting this is that humanity can live on its income even with zero wealth, but it can’t live on zero income no matter how much wealth it has.