Claudiu

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A sparking curious mind

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Most people don’t benefit much from chatbots because what people lack is not good answers so much as good questions. It’s no longer enough to curate your feed; you must now also curate your curiosity.

Gurwinder x.com

This excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s interview in 2003 ties perfectly to my essay about the eerie relevance of his ideas

Brock Covington substack.com

Success in business comes from helping people — bringing the most happiness to the most people. The best marketing is being considerate. The best sales approach is listening. Serve your clients’ needs, not your own. Business, when done right, is generous and focused on others. It draws you out of yourself, and puts you in service of humanity.

Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

Strategy

After a tremendous amount of trial and error—mostly error—I’ve come to the number five. I’ve decided to focus my year on five things. Three work-related, two personal. (Almost) everything I do must fit in one of these five areas. If it doesn’t, then I politely decline. Why five? Because for me, it seems to work. It covers the most important things

Peter Bregman • 18 Minutes

you can be taken out of a situation. but that does not necessarily mean that the situation was taken out of you.

The same as in “you can take people out from the communism but you can’t take the communism out from the people”

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
― James Baldwin

Creativity

I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea.... See more

Shane • How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught - Farnam Street

Not long ago, young people were told: “Learn to code.” That’s not working so well now. The first wave of AI is destroying the workaday tech jobs—perhaps there’s some karma in that.

But it also makes sense. When Dr. Frankenstein makes the monster, he’s usually the first victim.

So forget coding, and develop the real skills that we need now—and they... See more