The Long Run

on building a new world, slowly with intention

One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe... See more

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Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:

We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.

We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed

Ted Gioia • The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College

Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."

That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.

There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."

I have come to the conclusion that whatever lies in the future, stays in the future.

Lee A Smart • Be Successful Now

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

Allen Pike • An Unreasonable Amount of Time

An Introduction to the World's Fair Co.

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If you’re thinking about an idea that you can solve in your lifetime, you’re thinking too small. - Wes Jackson

Every “overnight success” is the result of years of thankless work. Success comes not from great acts of genius but from doing lots of small things consistently

23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23

long-term thinking

musings on long-term thinking in a shortsighted world. we overestimate what we can do in a year, underestimate what we can do in 10 kinda thing.

Juan Orbea and • 85 cards