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AI is to humanity what an obnoxious overconfident know-it-all is to a classroom

one thing LLMs have over social media is that you can't really use an llm without an intention you can't doomscroll an llm

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?” ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

Todos nós temos competências que muitas vezes não brilham no currículo, são silenciosas, não pedem palco, não rendem cargo, mas no final das contas sã

"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a business. With it, it becomes creation." -Bette Davis

“A maioria das pessoas ama algo que só existe na imaginação delas. O objeto do amor não é um homem ou uma mulher da realidade, mas o que ele ou ela é

‘As for this particular key, it is the key to the small room at the end of the long passage on the lower floor. Open anything you want. Go anywhere yo

(Emotion and motivation share the same Latin root, movere, which means "to move.")

Jerry Seinfeld: "You must master waiting. 'Show's gonna be delayed a half hour.' Fine. Plane's gonna be delayed two hours. Fine. Career's gonna be de

Perfectionism often wears the mask of high standards, ambition, discipline. It parades itself as virtue, a propriety. In reality, it is rarely about t

news is basically engineered anxiety. it’s abstract, external, & almost always negative. nothing about it affirms your agency or intimacy. but people

For example, some of you may have wondered about a special section of The Honest Broker called The Vault. This includes more than 400 literary essays

The simple fact is that there is no job or career in which keeping track of your learning isn’t useful.

I often took notes that, at the time, seemed totally useless, but they later proved extremely useful. Sometimes 10 or 20 years elapsed before I could

every time the reading material makes you think something, write it. even if it's something like "I didn't know that," "That's dumb," "Well, of course

People do not go to a website to admire it, but to get something done . — Jakob Nielsen

Ideas have a bad reputation. They're a dime a dozen. They're worthless unless implemented.

• The pandemic made working from home commonplace and the requirement to work in an office five days a week less of a default solution.

A totally different language for a totally different culture. If you’d like to take on the difficult but rewarding challenge of learning Japanese, I r

When we’re speaking, we’re saying messages through words but emoting through our faces. Our expressions give cues to what is and is not important in w

Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket

To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few

“Information, like food, has a sell-by date. Next quarter’s earnings are worthless after next quarter. And it is for this reason that the information

My information consumption philosophy is simple: (1) It must have a long shelf life. (2) It must have taken considerable effort to create. With

Critical ignoring is the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities. Critical ignoring is more than jus

Time’s gift is experience. Experience sharpens the craft. It acts as a prediction machine, and a pattern recognizer.  It cuts through the extraneous.

Learning a skill means doing the most with the least. Expert performers, we often say, “make it look easy.” This is for good reason.

# on shortification of "learning" There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely the

If the opposite of your strategy is a bad strategy, then your strategy is not a good strategy. Arguably, you’re just avoiding stupidity.

-In determining product features, think as if you are decorating a small house. Don’t make your users feel claustrophobic as if they’re in a small, cr

People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”

But when most people set out to craft a presentation or pitch, they start with three common questions. How can I explain this? How can I clarify this?

“The two skills of modern business: Storytelling and spreadsheets. Know the numbers. Craft the narrative.”

Don’t waste anybody’s time with a barrage of details. Maybe it took you five years to develop your idea, but no one wants to hear about that when you’