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The measure of my success as a leader is how minimal my intervention can be. I’m committed to stepping back and allowing others to make their own dec

"The best leaders are exothermic. Every atom jiggles faster around them. There is no chance for stasis.” -Tobi Lutke

my sense is that people who take a long time to respond to messages, or tend to go into shame spirals about them, often put a lot of pressure on thems

Making systems resilient is fundamentally at odds with optimization, because optimizing a system means taking out any slack. A truly optimized, and th

The problem (or at least one of the problems) is that the twin edicts to simultaneously optimize your team and life and to be flexible in light of an

But you can’t optimize systems in a context that’s changing, especially if it’s changing in unpredictable ways. Removing inefficiencies when circumsta

Against Optimization

The Operating Manual for Your Nervous System

What if Anxiety Is a Habit, Not a Disorder?

That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe

Traumatisation is most usually presented as anunassailable, concrete fact, and this is where I need to be respectful. If someone brings a firmconvicti

when the trauma label has been appliedby outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place andour culture

How Patagonia became Patagonia w/ Vincent Stanley

Tractors and Computers

What education does is provide a curated experience to help you learn. Done well, it sifts through the myriad resources, possible paths, and common e

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I spent seven years building a kid/ed-tech product and one critical thing I learned about the industry is this... No matter what they signal, most pa

What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a t

My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?! It's a "networ

Galicia is a fantastic region in Spain.

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The subscription model means content providers are paid regularly no matter the quality and quantity of the product. Makes sense – being paid on a reg

What tradition or practice from another culture or era do you think we should widely adopt?I wish patronage were widely adopted as an explicit social

Media and Machines.

10 key insights from Lenny Rachitsky on building a successful newsletter: 1. What do people ask you about that you don't have a great answer to? Vi

The Substackerati

Critical Atlas of Internet

Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered th

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The Enclosure of the Human Psyche

Never Forgive Them

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To Hell With Good Intentions

Never Forgive Them

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Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they lov

as a cis-gendered woman, all people that I encountered had to like me and feel happy and good. In turn, when other people either don’t like me, or my

There are a lot of organizational structures and lived practices embedded in our bodies that we just enact by default. But through explicit facilitati

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

I think this is probably an experience that many, many, particularly women but probably others feel, is the sense of loss of who we essentially are be

But there’s two parts to what I said about moving a step at a time. One, that it’s towards what I’m drawn to. At that point in time, with the informat

You Can Just Do... Many Things

WHY NOTEBOOKS? Major reasons: Reduce Repeated Thinking Prevent Lost Porgress Observe Mind Minor reasons: Storage and Retrieval Living Strategicl

A great thing about taking notes is that it subtly encourages you to live a ‘notes-worthy life’ You end up seeking interesting conversations to build

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The most underrated note taking app is still the photo album. I can instantly recall what I was doing weeks or years ago. A single picture evokes a do

wispr (dictation tool) is amazing and i'm now using it 60%+ of the time when i would've typed before. i'm going to put my referral link below - if you

There is nothing weaker than a painting that tries too hard. Do what comes easily. When it stops being fun, you’re doomed. If a painting sucks, I quit

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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur

The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

Companies don’t have communication problems, they have miscommunication problems. The smaller the company, group, or team, the fewer opportunities for

The tendency to put off, push away, or otherwise delay is strong. No. Act and move on. And act again if you have to — most decisions are temporary, an

the best relationships consist of a series of unbreachable private understandings

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "gr

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietz

First, I'll share one of my recent email declines: "This is such a fascinating subject, but I fear I've taken on too many blurb requests in the past f

2.) Offer a Brief But Firm Decline I chose to explain that I was over-committed on blurbs. I often simply say that I’m over-committed and unfortunate

A friend asked a Busy Guy to lead a project, and instead of saying yes or rejecting it, the Busy Guy said: “I can’t commit to that, but I can commit t

28 principles for Web 3 founders. Insights distilled from 100s of conversations & investments in crypto in the past 4 years.

New Yorkers Are Turning to Dinner Party-Style Restaurants to Make Friends (and Find Dates)

It’s wild that some mid level PM is making design tweaks for “retention” and ends up completely tearing the entire fabric of our society into a downwa