Thought poking
Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh
Thought poking
What would you do if you weren’t afraid of failing?
Adapted from Timeleft newsletter
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
from Ted Lasso S1
How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe that’s just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be. It takes more to hope than to remember.
-Darrow
Wish for things in the future, not the past
my bold; from Pierce Brown’s Morning Star pg. 305
Harvard University social psychologist Daniel Gilbert gave hundreds of people the opportunity to pick a free poster from a selection of art prints . Then he divided the participants into two groups. The first group was told that they had a month in which they could exchange their poster for any other one; the second group was told that the decision... See more
Gavin O'Hara • The Optionality Fallacy
Study called “Decisions and Revisions: The Affective Forecasting of Changeable Outcomes
Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny.
The courage isn’t in taking on more, it’s in cutting off everything that doesn’t feed your goal.
Focus requires subtraction.
-Shane Parrish
my bold; from Brain Food #632
“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”
- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes
What did xAI remove from the process? What can be removed from the home-building process? Can a home be built in less than 2 months? Or better: what does it take to build a home in less than 2 months?
But you shouldn’t live like someone waiting for the screenwriter of your life to arrange a convenient resolution.
Cate Hall • Are You Stuck in Movie Logic?
