people's biggest mistakes
Why should we care about digital hoarding? Storage is cheap, why not keep it all? To be clear, storage is cheap - cheaper than ever before. The clutter on our devices is (mostly) not a problem. The real problem is who is pushing all this clutter.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
I’m the proud owner of a terrifying cache of 20,000 articles, almost a thousand Goodreads books, and hundreds of writing drafts.
My digital clutter is horrific but hidden. The Google Drives of the world tuck away my digital rot in tidy little boxes. Scoff all you want, I know you've got a hoard of TikToks or 50,000 photos in your own phone. We are
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The things you learn in maturity aren't simple things such as acquiring information and skills. You learn not to engage in self-destructive behavior. You leant not to burn up energy in anxiety. You discover how to manage your tensions, if you have any, which you do. You learn that self-pity and resentment are among the most toxic of drugs. You find
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Internal triggers are the primary culprit of distraction. When negative feelings well up inside of you, your brain looks for refuge in something that will numb or distract. The thing you choose to distract yourself is the symptom of the internal trigger.
Ben Putano • Distraction Starts From Within
AI is powerful but taste-blind. It can make anything but it has no idea what's actually worth making.
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
I’d argue most humans have the same problem
when we expand a technology we expand it towards both the divine and the profane. But it is up to us to both define that which is divine/profane — instead of a broad acceptance of the profane as “just another use case that we can’t avoid”.
Reggie James • The Fall of Man
we have argued that the biggest error an investor can make is the sale of Walmart or Microsoft in the early stages of the company's growth we wonder would selling Amazon today be the equivalent mistake of selling Walmart in 1980
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
our manager has already made his first mistake in investing in Costco from not buying enough
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
This is is the hardest part. You need to have money available, have enough conviction and be willing withstand the pressure for yeares