Róża Zimnoch
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Róża Zimnoch
The hard part about table selection IRL is that choosing easier tables feels like admitting weakness. There's more social status in losing at the hard table than winning at the easy one. How many people stay at McKinsey getting absolutely crushed when they could be the star player at a mid-size company?
Life is Poker, Not Chess
> Do not interview; notice.
The questionnaire kills warm-blooded animals. Come on! Instead: observe how they treat the waiter, how they talk about people who are absent, whether they slide their chair back when a toddler wobbles past. You are selecting a co-witness for the apocalypse. Choose for... See more
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Stuff to bring up at a dinner party
“I can't help feel that identity is an illusion, I know that participation in a society isn’t.”
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Stuff to bring up at a dinner party
“I learnt at some point though that freedom is a type of currency. If you don’t spend it, you have nothing but coins, coins you can’t do anything with but spend. If you spend all your coins though, you quickly see that having everything is much like having nothing.”
Our brains come preset to look at life up close. Don't forget to zoom out. https://t.co/zdJ5L7VmGF
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace