Is This Real Life?
After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships.
Ev Williams • Making “Social” Social Again
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Addresses the 2025 LMU Undergraduate Commencement
youtu.beQuestlove is a treasure to humanity.
My instinct is to say that I’ve gotten more confident, but anyone who’s done this knows that confidence is an illusion. One day’s good work doesn’t mean anything. You’re still at the whim of the gods about how the next day is going to go.
Brent Lang • Paul Thomas Anderson on ‘Licorice Pizza’ and Moviemaking: ‘Anyone Who’s Done This Knows That Confidence Is an Illusion’
Where we invest our time also has a Return on Energy (ROE).
Return on Energy
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be
... See moreGreg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
KEKE is fascinating.
