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Write it down, write it down, write it down.

Undivided focus and your precious human time are among the most scarce and meaningful gifts you can give others in the AI era. Especially asalgorithms becoming more sophisticated in competing for our attention, giving your time to a human will be a gift. I expect our culture to crave the exchange of undivided attention. Showing your hands during a... See more

The Great Unlock of Your Time & How the Sway of Brand is Changing

Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.

Blackbird Spyplane • This life gives you nothing

Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing

U-M Stamps School of Art & Design • Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing

“things that work in practice, but wouldn’t work in theory.”

a lot of things have to emerge, bottoms up, for one to believe they are feasible.

Three things:

Everything, if done long enough and deeply enough, is sometimes tedious.

I’m pretty sure the key to long-term happiness lies in having fun even when something is tedious and difficult.

If you find something fun even when it’s objectively hard, keep going.

Ava • Everything’s Okay if You’re Still Having Fun

Many people who lack action are naive and like to sit and wait for things to happen naturally. They naively think that others will care about their affairs. In actual fact, other than yourself, others will not be very interested in them. People are only interested in their own things.

M. Tan • The 38 Letters From J.D. Rockefeller to His Son