Mark Rudden
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Mark Rudden
"You always admire what you really don't understand." — Blaise Pascal
“There's a second component of reading that many people don't realize exists: searching for the good books. There are a huge number of books and only a small percentage of them are really good, so reading means searching. Someone who tries to read but doesn't understand about the need to search will end up reading bad books, and will wonder why... See more
Brain Food: The Rarest Thing You Possess
90 percent of success is not getting distracted.
Brain Food: Seizing the Right Moments
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward
"The first wealth is health." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 23, 2024
- I know what makes people grow more reliably than anything else. It is: taking on a difficult project with some amount of public accountability. This can be large or small: a lecture series, a business, a blog, a house, a child, etc.
- It’s strange, but I know that it’s common to resist positive emotions, as well as negative ones. Ask
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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