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Eli
From age 20-50, I can't stress this enough: https://t.co/l6dcTVpsTD
If you are successful, it’s almost always because some people went out of their way to help you. You have a moral obligation to pay it forward.
Sam Altmantwitter.comBecause the brain mediates our experience of the world, any neurosurgical problem forces a patient and family, ideally with a doctor as a guide, to answer this question: What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
In this new book, Han describes the deleterious effects of that degeneration on storytelling. Storytelling used to bind us communally over the campfire; it connected us to our pasts and helped us imagine hopeful futures. The digital screen has replaced that fire, making us individuals performing factitious versions of ourselves to unseen peers,... See more
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stuartjeffries • The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Review – How Big Tech Altered the Narrative
What is technology? It’s technique. It’s the way we all do things. And when you discover a way to do things, its value is multiplied by all who use it. It is the proverbial fishing rod rather than the fish. That’s the difference between a startup and a restaurant or a barber shop. You fry eggs or cut hair one customer at a time. Whereas if you
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Can you engineer serendipity?
In the “surface area of luck” theory, your chance of being lucky equals the actions you take towards your passion multiplied by the people you tell.
Luck =
(Passionate Doing) x (Effective Telling)
h/t @VirenOswall... See more
Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there’s always something we could be grateful for. — Barry Neil Kaufman
Caren Albers • Happiness Junkie: A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life
the quality of your life is shaped by whom you want to impress