Thought provoking
To do the thing that no one else can do, you have to make the choice that no one else would make. But it can’t be performative—you can’t fake it by choosing an unpopular thing, because if you do it arbitrarily, the choice you’re making will just be bad . It actually has to come from something real inside you, the place of knowing beyond language.
Ava • What We Talk About When We Talk About Taste
Our results show that past formal institutions can leave a long-lasting legacy through cultural norms – even after some are generations of being governed by other authorities.
CEPR • How the Long-Gone Habsburg Empire Is Still Visible in Eastern European Bureaucracies Today
Being brilliant won’t save you if no one can count on you.
It can be hard to appreciate just how much reliability impacts opportunity. It’s fun to outperform people who are way smarter than you by being more reliable than they are.
Reliability isn’t just a virtue – it’s a competitive advantage that compounds over time.
It can be hard to appreciate just how much reliability impacts opportunity. It’s fun to outperform people who are way smarter than you by being more reliable than they are.
Reliability isn’t just a virtue – it’s a competitive advantage that compounds over time.
Shane Parrish • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.
– Justin Welsh
"Your calendar is the most honest autobiography you'll ever write.
It doesn't matter what you say your priorities are; your calendar reveals the truth. Each block is a decision about what matters, stripped of pretense and rationalization.
Your calendar isn't just recording your time—it's exposing your lies."
via @farnamstreet
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
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To pursue bright spots is to ask the question “What’s working, and how can we do more of it?”
Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
And when people exhaust their self-control, what they’re exhausting are the mental muscles needed to think creatively, to focus, to inhibit their impulses, and to persist in the face of frustration or failure. In other words, they’re exhausting precisely the mental muscles needed to make a big change.