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I passionately want you to believe in a specific counterfactual world—the one with systematic behavior change at the center of the creation process—and adopt it as your own.

The one thing I do try to follow is to go on streaks of reading a lot of books on a particular topic around the same time. Doing this is useful because it means I don’t have to just trust one author’s perspective on a particular topic, and it helps me connect a lot of facts together, so I can understand things better

My rule of thumb for project managers is that if it takes longer than two weeks to get into the field, you need to scale it back and go smaller. Think you’ll eventually want to do this at scale with a letter, but the mail room is backed up?

Ratio analysis provides a useful technical tool for spotting trend changes in these intermarket relationships.

if a random thought arises, acknowledge the thought and then simply let it go by gently bringing your attention back to the flow of your breath.

Many people try to remember information by sound—repeating it over and over again, hoping it will somehow stick. But sound is very limited because it doesn’t attach easily to other memories. A sound is also sequential; to remember information by sound, you have to start at the beginning and work your way through it. When you see information as an

meet up creation flow that read “I pledge to create real, face-to-face community.” Andres was skeptical. Sure, it might keep out the spammers, but the golden rule of designing sign-up flows is that you don’t add anything unnecessary, because every additional step introduces greater inhibiting pressure and thus lowers the behavior that is

depending on how fast the puck is already moving. Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.

The ultimate lesson of the question was that detailed prior knowledge was less important than a way of thinking.