Is This Real Life?
The number of people reading a post or following an account is not a useful indicator of whether or not the ideas within are made up or not.
The Weekly World News version of the future
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archive.isYou must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
This really hit, but I like to think that in many ways I am a slightly smarter version of my younger self. I guess for some people there is a greater distance. Or I’m just in denial.
It’s tempting to trade credibility for fame.
Seth Godin • The fame/trust inversion
from Care Doesn’t Scale.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight... See more
Johnny Rodgers
From Adam Grant’s book, Think Again.