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Questions are the answers you might need
the problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
#29 We want to be useful
Most people want to contribute. Even in nomad hubs where people could easily stop working forever, I find most people do things to help others, create, etc.. Realizing this can help you realize how important it is to search for the "real work"
Most people want to contribute. Even in nomad hubs where people could easily stop working forever, I find most people do things to help others, create, etc.. Realizing this can help you realize how important it is to search for the "real work"
Paul Millerd • Tweet
You get different gifts in life, and one of my great gifts is my mom and dad. They have been incredible role models for me and my siblings our entire lives.
Jeff Bezos • Statement to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
#12 Prototyping life shifts
People falsely look at life as all-or-nothing leaps. This is because people tell the story this way and we seek evidence for it. We listen for what we want to hear. Yet if you dig deeper, most people prototype major changes in subtle, slow ways.
People falsely look at life as all-or-nothing leaps. This is because people tell the story this way and we seek evidence for it. We listen for what we want to hear. Yet if you dig deeper, most people prototype major changes in subtle, slow ways.
Paul Millerd • Tweet
I have over a decade’s worth of eating disorder experience at this point. There were the anorexic years, the binge-eating ones, and the current bulimic ones. The more experience I’ve got, the more I recognize that the body is hardly a reliable reflection of what’s going on inside it.
Jennette Mccurdy • I'm Glad My Mom Died
How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)
Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?
David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his
Choosing what you do matters a lot more than how you do it
Podcast Notes • 📝 Tesla Full Self Driving Breakthrough, Seinfeld, Huberman/Jocko, Tim Ferris 2X, MFM Deep Dives on Exec. Health, Indexes and Stock Markets
"That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane."
— Erich Fromm (The Sane Society)
— Erich Fromm (The Sane Society)