On attempting to build extraordinary things
They’ve built a solid frame of knowledge and beliefs about the things that change more slowly on which they hang newer, faster-moving information in its proper place. The new thing that most people see as the main thing, they treat like a small thing in the context of a much longer, larger thing. Maybe it will impact the longer, larger thing –... See more
Packy McCormick • Pace Yourself
This Maria Popova quote stopped me in my tracks:
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but... See more
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but... See more
Helen Keller , who became the first deaf and blind person in the United States to earn a college degree, on perseverance:
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Source: The Simplest Way to Be Happy
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Source: The Simplest Way to Be Happy
James Clear • 3-2-1: On seizing the day, perseverance, and focusing on one task at a time
Creativity is born of limitations, not freedom
Kieran O‘Hare • Following the ‘White-hot Fire Inside of You’
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Endless Pursuits, the Value of Courage, and How to Buy Back Your Time
Ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna on courage.
The problem with the argument that it’s stupid to look for meaning in work—a form of false consciousness to find purpose in your job—and rare to love what you do is that it’s wrong. All sorts of people doing all kinds of work like the companionship they find in the workplace, the chance to get out of the house, the feeling of doing something, the... See more
Jill Lepore • What’s Wrong with the Way We Work
The path on which a theory is set eventually becomes obvious to everyone—except perhaps the theorist. And this is how adversarial collaborations can advance science without adversaries changing their mind.
They have to preregister their plans on a public site, and, in articles they publish later, they are obligated to focus on the results that they... See more
They have to preregister their plans on a public site, and, in articles they publish later, they are obligated to focus on the results that they... See more
Daniel Kahneman • Adversarial Collaboration: An EDGE Lecture by Daniel Kahneman
Know what you want to stand out for, how you’re different, what you can do that no one else can that can’t be captured by an algorithm or simple market signals, at least not yet.
There’s a market for almost everything.
The most valuable things will always be the ones that are hardest to price.
There’s a market for almost everything.
The most valuable things will always be the ones that are hardest to price.
Superhuman
- To create a product that grows organically, you need to “surprise and delight” your customers. You can’t do that by simply meeting a user’s expectations, you have to surpass them. And doing that takes time. (h/t Scott Belsky)