shifting perspectives

things that make you change the way you see something

Love this from Joshua Kushner’s interview on Patrick O’Shaughnessy‘s Invest like the Best: Patrick: How do you balance or reconcile participating in a $2b round for stripe with a 2m check into a seed company? Joshua: They are equally concentrated - not in magnitude of capital but in... See more

sari

Possibly the most counterintuitive thing in life is that if you’re tired, you can work out to gain more energy.

alex

rob hardy

Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagine that the evolution of your life or our culture is like a pregnancy: It needs to reach its full term. Just as a child isn’t ready to be born after five months of gestation, the New Earth we’re

Rob Brezsny • Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia

rob hardy

Only dead fish go with the flow.

-David Ogilvy

sari

alex

Growth mindset is just replying to yourself with “skill issue” every time something goes wrong

Emmett Shear • Tweet

rob hardy

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Option 3: take a breath. Become conscious of the anxiety this sort of message stirs in you. Consider the possibility that building the next phase of your career around the fear of getting left behind might be a really bad basis for producing the kind of work people will want to pay you for – not to mention (and not unrelatedly) a rather grim way to... See more

Oliver Burkeman substack.com

sari

3000 BCE: Imagine a hot shower... 1000: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1200: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1400: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1600: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1800: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 2000: Ah, nice hot showers for all... See more

Steph Smith twitter.com

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