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“The only meaning in life is to reside as a good object in the minds of others.” - Tom Hiddleston.
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden path, or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life breathed easier beca
Kindness is happiness turned outward. -Forest Linden
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. -Beverly Sills
the function of your professional life is to find the most natural structure that allows you to turn the things you do as naturally as breathing or wa
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. —Viktor Frankl
You can have success or excuses, but you can’t have them both. People that learn quickly focus only on the information and skills that matter. Excuses
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden path, or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life breathed easier beca
Curators are API’s that exist between people and all the knowledge of the world. An API is an “application programming interface” that allows two apps
What if every grouping of 7 words in any piece of human generated written content created a unique, encrypted hash that is entered into a peer-to-peer
Housing is one of the most important, most expensive things that humans need. An estimated 1.6 billion people - one-fifth of humanity - lack access to
So much of the deeper levels of what drives us as humans seems to keep pointing at our emotions. Passages in books the move us. Movies that make us fe
This state the importance of unread books in a library. They're the reflection of the things we don't know. Just like Empty notes are better than no n
The most famous example of this practice is the meditations Marcus Aurelius wrote in his tent as plague swept through the camps during the military ca
In a word, we’ve struggled for two years to find someone with taste—with an eye for what stands the chance of being interesting, entertaining, or usef
What we have long called the creator economy is evolving to become more of a “meaning economy,” where the creators and brands and experiences that eng
During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for medi
Impatience is an expensive emotion. Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform pr
On becoming a leader within a movement, and why it can be so helpful in you reaching success with your work. This is a newsletter from Brian Clark se
The fundamental problem is that this attitude toward time sets up a rigged game in which it’s impossible ever to feel as though you’re doing well enou
All things about marketing and selling online.
The status signal is circular: you can afford to be selectively online because you have capital, and being selectively online signals you have capital
Eighty percent of any direct-marketing campaign’s success depends on putting a great offer in front of the right market ." — Ed Mayer
I can write the ad on a paper bag in crayon, but if it’s the right offer for the right person at the right time, it will sell.” — Richard Sears, the
Great ad copy comes from passionate caring , not BS, hype, and con artistry. " — Ken McCarthy
Arriving at Camp Grounded, visitors passed through a “cultish tech-check tent run by the International Institute of Digital Detoxification,”4 where th
We create more than ever, but it weighs nothing. AI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards.
The Rule of One for copywriting: You have one reader. One big idea. One promise. And one offer. Source: unknown person who is no longer alive, probab
To write better copy, remember that you’re selling the reader on a better version of themselves. - Source: common knowledge in conversion copywriting
“Ken—” said Bob. “Yes?” said Ken. “What’s the greatest thing you learned after all your time working with Gene?” “Gene” is Eugene Schwartz, widely con
1. “We tell stories because we have a hollow place in our heart. You don’t fill that with success. You fill it by finding yourself in the stories you
Because right now there is someone Out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words.
If you don’t use your voice, someone will use your silence. -unknown
You're alive in inverse proportion to the density of cliches in your writing — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A new idea is a network of cells exploring the adjacent possible of connections that they can make in your mind. -Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas
To make your mind more innovative, you have to place it inside environments that share that same network signature: networks of ideas or people that m
“Dunbar's research suggests one vaguely reassuring thought: even with all the advanced technology of a leading molecular biology lab, the most product
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don’t bring forth what is within you, what you don’t bring forth wil
