Conor McCarthy
@conormccarthy
Author “The Unstuck Book”. Angel Investor. Web3 Mentor @ Techstars. Founder @ Subscription Club. Host @ First 10 Podcast🎙. Coach @ Seth Godin's altMBA. Software tinkerer. AI Enthusiast.
Conor McCarthy
conormccarthy.me
Most of the knowledge of the world isnt written down
To really understand a concept, you have to “invent” it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn’t come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an active, high-agency, self-directed process of creating and debugging your own mental models.
Learning is not memorising, learning is changing behaviour.
"Lo bueno, si breve, dos veces bueno" —what is good, if brief, is twice as good.
pretended to hate, was being asked to give advice. So why were people always asking him for it? Because even when Richard didn't understand, he always seemed to understand better than the rest of us. And whatever he understood, he could make others understand as well. Richard made people feel like a child does, when a grown-up first treats him as... See more
This comes from Paul Loomans, a Zen monk who mentions it in his excellent book Time Surfing (which I’ve praised here before, and which was recently re-released in English as I’ve Got Time). “If you look at the day’s activities as a string of beads,” Loomans writes, “you will see it’s made up of all different kinds: large, weighty beads and small,... See more
Life isn’t fair—and that’s the most liberating thing you can accept. Ben’s father taught him this simple truth that defeats most people. Everyone expects fairness and gets destroyed when it doesn’t come. Once you accept unfairness as the default, you stop asking “Why me?” and start asking “What now?”—the only question that matters.
While agreeing that a new technology does lead to a change in our agency, Reid points out that agency isn’t just about objective control; it’s also about how we perceive and experience our own sense of control. “Is it a loss of agency to being driven in an Uber, or a gain in agency to being driven in an Uber? If you're like, ‘My hands aren't on the... See more
What are you pretending to know when you could be asking a better question?