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Try it yourself: Record a simple “Hey, my name is X and I’m recording my voice right now” on your phone twice — first with a straight face, then with a big smile. Listen to both recordings. The voice that comes through when you’re smiling is 10x better.

Hot take: the most dangerous point in life is not the point of total failure but the point of moderate success. A failed man keeps throwing punches—his spirit is alive and kicking. But a moderately successful man is in the danger of trading potential glory for peaceful mediocrity

Nietzsche describes 3 modern vices https://t.co/WqikVoo0fp

Now, here’s what 99% of people get wrong:

They wait for the interaction to start, and only then force a smile ❌

That’s wayyyyy too late.

The magic only happens if you start smiling BEFORE:

• 5 seconds before you open your camera on Zoom call


• 5 seconds before you pick up the phone


• 5 seconds before walking into the meeting room

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I mean, one of the biggest risks in the world I think is a collapse in belief, a belief in ourselves, a belief in the future. And part of that I think comes from a lack of imagination, a lack of imagination of what we can be, lack of imagination of what the future can be. And so this imagination thing I think is an important pillar of something tha... See more

Genuine career advice: hang this poster in your room (or closet). https://t.co/asoaRTVG7v

One of the best ways to offload tedious work is to offload it to oblivion. Just don’t do it. Don’t have an AI agent do it, just don’t do it. See what happens. While some might truly be necessary (oh well), most, almost certainly, isn’t (oh yeah).

the harder you work at something the more you'll like it. don't be fooled, passion is built, not discovered

But the trend is clear: answers to even very hard questions are becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. Which means the ability to ask them is getting more and more and more valuable.

In other words, the cheaper Grossmann becomes, the more valuable Einstein becomes.