Life Advice
The average ambitious person spends too much time accumulating optionality and too little time taking actual risks with high upside potential for themselves or the world.
Erik Torenberg • Reconsidering Career Optionality
These things I know for sure
ganesh k.
It is a human trait to organize things into categories. Inventing categories creates an illusion that there is an overriding rationale in the way that the world works.
Surfaces that are "easy to clean" also show dirt more. In reality a surface that camouflages dirt is much more practical than one that is easy to
A couple of months ago I pursued a new habit. Every night I pulled out a pad of paper and filled a blank page with answers to the question “What do I want in life?” (This is an exercise based on Jim O’Shaughnessy’s excellent six-part Thinker & Prover thread.) Unearthing my desires was painstaking work.
Frederik Gieschen • Gratitude, Desire, and a Money Paradox
“the longer the race, the less meaningful a head start is”