increasing my surface area
Advice for introducing yourself: Mention three things about yourself that people can hook onto (e.g. what you do, what you’re passionate about, where you come from) — this way, you’re increasing the surface area they have to find a point of resonance/connection.
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Whenever I get caught in “make-a-dent-in-the-universe” thinking, I ask myself WIIWAF (what if I were a frog?)
A natural response to death is to aspire to rupture space-time: found a company, or a name-recognition indie band, or a book that sells beyond your life. But who really makes a dent in the universe? Steve Jobs? Jonas Salk? Genghis Kahn? Doe
... See moreThe trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
as far as you can manage it, you should make sure your psychological centre of gravity is in your real and immediate world – the world of your family and friends and neighborhood, your work and your creative projects, as opposed to the world of presidencies and governments, social forces and global emergencies.
This will make you happier. It will ma
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Large quantities of something can transform the nature of those somethings. More is different. Computer scientist J. Storrs Hall writes: “If there is enough of something, it is possible, indeed not unusual, for it to have properties not exhibited at all in small, isolated examples.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
release. The trick is to figure out ways to explore the edges of possibility that surround you. This can be as simple as changing the physical environment you work in, or cultivating a specific kind of social network, or maintaining certain habits in the way you seek out and store information.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things.
Arthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
“Dunbar’s number” is a theoretical cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships humans can maintain at one time. According to Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, humans have the cognitive capacity to keep track of somewhere around 150 close personal connections. Beyond this limited circle, we start treating people less like indi
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