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“The hurt from getting beaten only lasts a little while, but the hurt from giving up without a fight never goes away.” – John Taylor Gatto
Putting both hospitality and excellence on our list was a way of recognizing that success was going to come from approaching the problem of hospitality vs. excellence in the most difficult way possible: in order to succeed, we needed to be good at both. This wasn’t an either/or—it was an and. Later, I would learn that the management guru Roger
... See moreWill Guidara • Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Here are 13 things that every skilled chaos-surfer understands:
- How something appears to you may not be how it is.
- What is said or shown may not be all there is.
- What is true for me may not be true for you.
- The same words may mean different things to different people.
- What people say may not be what they mean. Because comms is lossy and language is
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Why desire — not resilience — leads to longevity
bigthink.com
Of all his provocative ideas, the one that lingers with me most is his argument that while “resilience” is celebrated, it’s often a dead end in practice. He’s urged me to reframe resilience itself as desire. “We’ve glorified resilience as this virtue,” he told me. “Bounce back, return to normal, weather the storm. But the literal definition of resilience is the ability of a system to return to its original baseline after being disturbed.” He continues:
Key quote: “That’s fine if you’re a rubber band. But in nature — and in human systems — survival doesn’t come from returning to where you were. It comes from becoming something you weren’t before. The most enduring systems — biological, social, or economic — don’t revert. They evolve. Resilience is static. It’s about homeostasis. Evolution is dynamic. It’s driven by dissonance, by collapse, by moments of rupture that force entirely new structures of being to emerge.”
Most people, when they think about innovation, start with the product. Instead, the innovator should start by figuring out an innovative method for getting products to customers. Most people, when they think about innovation, start with the product. Instead, the innovator should start by figuring out an innovative method for getting products to... See more
Steve Jobs • Steve Jobs about go to market strategy
Cultivate Curiosity
Having the library of Alexandria in our pockets has dulled, rather than heightened, our senses. Despite unprecedented access to information, there is a sluggish incuriosity, a giving of the self to the algorithm that feeds us information, rather than allows us to search for it.
Yet curiosity, at its core, is simple: it is... See more
Having the library of Alexandria in our pockets has dulled, rather than heightened, our senses. Despite unprecedented access to information, there is a sluggish incuriosity, a giving of the self to the algorithm that feeds us information, rather than allows us to search for it.
Yet curiosity, at its core, is simple: it is... See more