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One thing I didn’t realize until later in life is how the incentives of an industry shape your mood, your outlook, and even your character. In early stage investing, the incentives reward optimists, so it literally pays to keep an optimistic outlook. In journalism, the opposite is true. In law, the incentives often reward finding the flaw or the... See more

I see a strong link between procrastination and what I call "tensing style." When doing a task, we can either tense into it or relax into it. Many people force themselves to do productive things with a kind of mental & bodily tensing motion. When we build a habit... See more

measure the distance between what you say and what you do. that distance is your entire problem. the closer those two points get to each other, the more powerful you become. when they become the same point, you become unstoppable

"We weren’t born to do jobs." Bill Gates says jobs are a relic of human scarcity. In a world without shortages, society will be able to produce enough—food, healthcare, services—without everyone working. The real shift won’t be economic. It’ll be reprogramming how we think about purpose... See more

do the thing you want to do and not the thing you think you should do before you do the thing you want to do