Remind me Often
[...] the bullshitter is an antirealist, treating “reality as inherently risky and under construction,” fraught with a greater degree of uncertainty. [...] Bullshitters engage in “deferred epistemic gratification” by throwing a variety of ideas and claims out there without regard to the weight of the evidence.
foxwizard • 💌 How to Be a Better Imposter
Too many businesses don’t really understand that the core of their business is making people feel good. Whether it’s walking into a store or a restaurant, or being on an airplane, most people go through life hoping that good things will happen to them, and they return to businesses that make those things happen.
Alison Beard • Life’s Work: An Interview with Ruth Reichl
I have never come out of a situation where I was negative to or about someone else and felt better. Any time I have been disdainful of another person has ended with me wishing I had kept my mouth shut. Turns out that hurting people, even when I think I’m right, even if they “hurt me first”, just makes me feel worse, and made their life worse in the... See more
The Life-Changing Power of Shutting Up
#ht Dense Discovery
Loved this talk - the sheer humanity of it!
I am quite the fan of Professor Randolph Nesse’s theory of depression. Nesse and his colleagues speculate that depression could act as a biological constraint system that helps to minimise wasted effort and loss by forcing the individual to slow down, reassess, and potentially change strategies.”
I don’t recommend you seek to be depressed.
But to have Deep Rest™️—I think many of us could do with that!
Take decentralized networks, which promised to shift power from tech giants back to users. The vision was beautiful: creators and contributors would finally capture the value they generate. But many crypto networks revealed how quickly noble intentions can unravel. What started as a grassroots movement to build community-owned wireless networks dev... See more
The Last Human Choice
How can resist the temptation of greed?
Start with why has done more harm than good. It’s given a generation of professionals the permission to indulge in navel-gazing. No one cares about your “why”—they only care about how you can help them.
Wes Kao • 🌵 Spiky point of view: Let’s get a little controversial
Hah! ;-ppppp
‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen.