Lakshmi
@floatydisco
Lakshmi
Every “hi” is a first impression. To do it well, lead with curiosity instead of apathy, mistrust, or resignation.
Now, here’s what 99% of people get wrong:
They wait for the interaction to start, and only then force a smile ❌
That’s wayyyyy too late.
The magic only happens if you start smiling BEFORE:
You should start smiling befor... See more
They wait for the interaction to start, and only then force a smile ❌
That’s wayyyyy too late.
The magic only happens if you start smiling BEFORE:
- 5 seconds before you open your camera on Zoom call
- 5 seconds before you pick up the phone
- 5 seconds before walking into the meeting room
You should start smiling befor... See more
Tom Orbach • The dumbest career hack that's worked 100% of the time 🍓
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
— Annie Dillard, ’The Writing Life’, 1989
the science of business is scaling, and the art of business is things that don’t scale
Scott Belsky • The Wild Future of Commerce & The Rise of Conformative Software
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
You just need to be smart enough to understand that your success is more about your courage than your intelligence.
Sublime is not:
Sublime is not another note-taking tool to add your grocery list or to store your kids health insurance info – the ideas that move you should not live alongside the daily minutia.
Sublime is not a read it later tool that becomes a graveyard of junk.
Sublime is not a social network – there’s no likes, no comments, no vanity metrics.
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