Inspiration

Being a better you can also make you a vehicle to allow people to be the best version of themselves.

Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy. Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder. Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder. Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder. Easy has a cost.

I rarely feel confident enough to give anyone advice about anything, but here's something small that has changed my life as a writer: a kindness log.

This is the website of a $50B company. Yours doesn't have to be perfect. Just ship it.

why are you not romanticizing the mundane things? why are you not cooking with ambience lighting & beverages? cleaning with a soundtrack & dance? answering emails with scented candles on the desk & jazz? why are you not creating pockets of luxury?

This visual trick from @hubermanlab has changed my life in the simplest and subtlest way:

Bill Gates on Microsoft's "hard-core detractors" December 4, 1993

Mark Zuckerberg: Could Facebook move faster? March 30, 2012

After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is completely misleading. The body supplies energy to meet demand. The tank *expands* if you use a lot of fuel. In other words, biology is fundamentally antifragile

Airbnb cofounder: "I thought of a way to make a few bucks" September 22, 2007