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week 21 ⊙ 20268
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That $100,000 watch serves better as a symbol that you gave everything you had, and did what you said you were going to do vs trying to look impressiv

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances the

i don't want the attention on me, i want the attention on the things that i'm doing. that's why it doesn't exhaust me - farza

week 20 ⊙ 202615
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just spent the past hour writing a monster codex prompt articulating with brutal clarity exactly what needs to improve in the blok app. been realizin

a basic human psychological need to collect artifacts that have meaning. and you should never underestimate that

i don't know david, and it doesn't bother me that he sold his @cryptopunks recently. but if i were to make a case for why someone should consider own

week 19 ⊙ 202613
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V3 | Systems | Bottlenecks Bottlenecks are the choke points, the narrow parts of the hourglass where everything slows down. They’re the constraints

connected to everything, attached to nothing

cool websites i come across27
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Amanda Schmitt Art

intention.2
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intention is willingly knowing where you’re place your attention next.

Intention involves paying attention on purpose and with purpose.

things that are true29
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No arrastres amistades por inercia

Silence has much to say.

PAUSE: Postpone Action Until Serenity Enters.

copywriting things i wanna remember7
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Know your target audience. Not intellectually, but intuitively. Think like them, empathize with them, identify with them. Because at some level, the r

Read your copy out loud to yourself. If it helps, pick up a phone and pretend you’re presenting the copy to someone on the other end. (via Adrian Holm

Copy is emotions, stories, and truths. Those are the things that stick.

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grasping the definition of "taste"16
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a painting that suggests is usually more engaging than one that tells. Everyone makes up their own story about the Mona Lisa.

The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.

The only style worth having is the one you can't help.

As Arnold Bennett famously said, ‘Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

the awe-inspiring state of the child5
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"Kids are open and have no baggage. They don't know how things are supposed to work. They just see what is. This openness allows for purer forms of cr

if you approach small children without an agenda, if you can match the openness of their minds, you too are open.

A child lives much of the time in his natural state and that is why he is quite contented. - Baba Muktananda

“Spend your time in the company of geniuses, sages, children, and books.” —Naval Ravikant

what is beyond the intellectual?14
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Mind Like Water: A mental and emotional state in which your head is clear, able to create and respond freely, unencumbered with distractions and split

Not all questions seek answers, some seek journeys.

what is value creation?17
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Love this from Jesse Beyroutey: We’ve found that the primary source for a company’s dominance is whether it designs its product and business model to

Repetition doesn't spoil the prayer.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.

“If something looks irrational – and has been so for a long time – odds are you have a wrong definition of rationality.” – Taleb