provocations

Journaling is a terrible solution to negative feelings I never understood why people recommend this. Writing is thinking. The more you write the more you ruminate and the unhappier you become. Writing is the last thing you should be doing when you’re feeling down:

if you’re so intelligent why isn’t your life more cozy?

you’re not building a product you’re engineering culture

I think a lot about how we don’t have anything in software in the category of luxury.

As an operator, doing nothing is never the right strategy. As an investor, doing nothing is often the right strategy.

I often think of Enya, refusing to listen to any music, in case it influences her And Walt Disney, who became glued to TV, would watch anything, just to stay on top of the (new at the time) medium and what people were doing with it Artistically, both of these seem valid

The American Psychological Association once invited William James to give a talk on the first 50 years of psychology research. He simply said: “People by and large become what they think of themselves.” Then, he left.

What does this teach you about life?

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It is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt.