values in action

Joe Edelman • Human Values

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Alex Dobrenko • more recs than an old school camera store

Bill Watterson’s 1990 Commencement Speech, via Both are True

Desire is what you want; purpose is the flowering of what you are. Desire tends to weaken over time, whereas purpose strengthens the more you lean into it. Desire can be depleting because it’s insatiable; purpose is empowering—it’s a stronger engine.

Mark Manson • Will

Around the same time, as I began to regain my sense of balance, I reread the work of my friend and mentor Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who'd died a few months earlier. She'd once written, "For anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That's pretty much all the info u need."

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How to Live by Your Values This Year

Casey Rosengren every.to

Great originals are great procrastinators, but they don’t skip planning altogether. They procrastinate strategically, making gradual progress by testing and refining different possibilities.

Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Barlow knew that new technology could create and empower evil as much as it could create and empower good. He made a conscious decision to focus on the latter: "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up... See more

Cindy Cohn • John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018

This Substack should be a place for honest and useful conversation, on more or less any topic. But intentions matter.

There will be an ironclad no-assholes policy, enforced with the apparent capriciousness of a bolt of lightning. If you ever find yourself wondering whether to say something vicious to another subscriber here, please take a moment to... See more

Sam Harris • About - Sam Harris

“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach