sparks

don’t know how else to explain it except to say that when I make time to read, my capacity to deal with my own life — and my own bullshit — expands . My natural tendency to be tightly wound loosens its grip.

Reading as a default state

Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet

this is amazing and applies to helping someone learn anything.

How to avoid cynicism:

Act in ways opposite to your instinct. If you hate something, find out more about it. Again ask 'What is this?', 'Who made this?', 'Who is this for?' Genuinely. Never stop doing this"

-via @being_on_line

The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.

But here’s what we do know as we age: we come to realise that ‘out there’ is not a place in the world- it is a place in our heads. It’s an emotional state of mind that requires risk, vulnerability and the timid hope that what you dream of doing might just be of value to the world. Those are hard things to reconcile as you get older. Risk can seem... See more

Farrah @Substack • Are you ready to put yourself 'out there'?

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

-Charles Mackay

TS;WTRM (too short, want to read more)

*saw this alternative today and loved it. Instead of prefacing with a tldr have a summary then a TSWTRM version

the people who win deals are the ones who want to win them most.

The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream

My speech at my son’s Bris, 9 years ago:

Thank you all for being here - Rabbis, family, friends- to welcome our son to the world on his 8th day. Like all Jewish events in history, the bris starts with a severe dose of pain…and ends of course with a severe dose of food.

Welcome to the tribe, son!

We wanted to briefly share the origin of our son's