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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.

Confusing status with skill

The tenured philosophy professor at Princeton might not even be half as effective a teacher as the adjunct at the community college.

The head of surgery might be relatively better at meetings and politics than they are at actually helping patients.

Having a lot of social media followers doesn’t mean you’re really good at ma... See more

Your job might not be to do your job. Your job might be to make the decisions and commitments needed to lead other people who do your (former) job.

“Whining in the face of imperfection often ruins what you’ve already got.”

Whining is the evil cousin of complaining. Whining purports to exist to make things better, but it never does.

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem said, “The best way to complain is to make things.”

And perhaps we can extend that to: “The best way to complain is to make things bett... See more

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

Are you making that choice because your labor is cheap and convenient, or because it’s the place of maximum leverage? It’s often easier to be busy than it is to be productive.

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 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.