questions are the guide to life
“The piece is developing a compelling argument about how the right question can generate almost supernatural persistence .
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
I don’t what to do? How should I choose on what to do next?
Follow your innate curiosity. Paul Graham → Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies and knows what’s worth paying attention to.
Related to isabel mind min talking about your heart and your brain that your heart will take in you direction your logical brain can’t
And similar to leland maschemeyer of and diagram of returning to the center. Follow the thread and bring it back to the center
One of the things it is to be a human being is to pursue a question so Big that you could pursue it for a Bryan Johnson Lifetime and never get your answer.
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.
You don’t choose your passions. They choose you.
Jeff Bezos
People who read widely and attentively—and then publish the results of their reading—are also arguably performing research as a leisure activity.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
The novelist Kate Zambreno claims that when she is working, she often sees the same names and the same books everywhere: “I begin to make connections with everything—I see literature everywhere, a vast referentiality.”
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the thi
... See moreJohn Gardner • Personal Renewal
A famous paragraph from John Gardner that was back to him in a rather heartbreaking way.
"A man wrote to me from Colorado saying that his 20 year-old daughter had been killed in an auto accident some weeks before and that she was carrying in her billfold a paragraph from a speech of mine. He said he was grateful because the paragraph -- and the fact that she kept it close to her -- told him something he might not otherwise have known about her values and concerns. I can't imagine where or how she came across the paragraph, but here it is:"
We all think what we want is answers. We don’t, actually. Answers are dead things. Questions are animating. What we want is great questions.
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
dear Nick thanks for sending along the update you and Zach have made the right choice I predict you will find life is just beginning best regards Warren E Buffett
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Relates to the one big question that Not Boring wrote about