SethG

Wishful thinking doesn’t lead to successful skydiving, a working parachute does.

[Cults are cults because they demand a shared story that doesn’t align with a useful, generative, positive version of reality, and so they harm the members and eventually hit the wall.]

Good decisions are calculations based on what you know right now. If the world turns out differently than the data you had indicated, that’s not a bad decision.

A bad decision is one that isn’t based on available facts. It falls into traps like sunk costs or peer pressure. A bad decision is an error in judgment or skill. Good decision makers, when f... See more

The number of people reading a post or following an account is not a useful indicator of whether or not the ideas within are made up or not.

Act accordingly.

The simple life hack is to lower your expectations, regardless of what you’re entitled to. Create the conditions for the outcome you seek, but leave yourself room if it doesn’t arrive.

Lowering expectations is a way to ensure that tomorrow is even better than you hope it will be.

A question from ​The Strategy Deck​ by Seth Godin:

“Better waves make better surfers. Are you on the right beach?”

spend less time choosing and more time sorting.

take the situation quite seriously, but perhaps not focus so much on taking ourselves seriously.