quotes ⭐️
"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you’re passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated ."
https://github.com/readme/ • Publishing your work increases your luck
Reading Anna Karenina and just got hit with: “He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking.”
Seeing her as one does the sun without looking???? Tolstoy you dog, you scoundrel, you prince, it’s gorgeous
Nicolaia Ripssubstack.compretty
The goal is not to become famous, the goal is to increase the chances of luck finding us.
https://github.com/readme/ • Publishing your work increases your luck
Your curiosity will naturally pull you in certain directions, so don’t be afraid to go super deep into a topic that you’re interested in.
https://github.com/readme/ • Publishing your work increases your luck
Tim Blanning writes, “conservatives were appalled and progressives were delighted, that it was a habit that knew no social boundaries.”
James Marriott • The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
Your curiosity will naturally pull you in certain directions, so don’t be afraid to go super deep into a topic that you’re interested in. When a person is truly interested in the thing they’re writing or talking about, their excitement is contagious. Whatever you’re excited about, be excited about it publicly. Whatever you’re curious about, be... See more
https://github.com/readme/ • Publishing your work increases your luck
If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history.
James Marriott • The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
I am not asking you to make my trials go away, because I know that my trials make me more resilient. I am not asking you to make the pain go away, because I know pain makes me stronger. I am not asking you to make life easier, because I know that the harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Instead, I simply ask you to give me strength because I... See more