The Long Run

on building a new world, slowly with intention

Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD).

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“Good thing we aren’t penalized for handing in our purpose late. The soul doesn’t know a thing about deadlines.” - Jeff Brown

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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."

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a thought after listening to Dave Fontenot on Invest like the Best:

social media shifts our relationship with time because you feel like there’s an endless number of things you have to sift through, and time starts to feel limited.

there's something about feeling a sense of abundant time that's really powerful and conducive to flow state - how do we

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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 • 83 cards

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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

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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 flavor-of

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

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

Lee A Smart • Be Successful Now

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But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more

Jasmine Sun • the scenic route

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dreamers addicted to reality instead of realists addicted to dreams. -Neri Oxman on what she looks for when hiring

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