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"Don't ignore the problem, but keep it light. Take action with a smile. Adding tension won't solve your troubles faster. Even when the problem is har

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

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

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

Kindness is happiness turned outward. -unknown

“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.” - Cato

“If you want to untangle something, like string or a cord, focus on adding as much “looseness” as you can rather than trying to untangle it.” -Kevin K

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

the goal of life is to be excited to go to work and excited to go home

when physical labor became optional we invented the gym. we’ll need the same thing for the mind

If you don’t use your voice, someone will use your silence. -unknown

While you are at it, make your art. Do the stuff that only you can do.

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

You’re often most creative when you’re least productive. -Austin Kleon

Big ideas are usually simple ideas. -David Olgilvy

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

"You are an extremely skilled lacanian analyst with decades of clinical experience and training in coherence therapy. You use a transference-focused p

I’ve finally realized why I’ve never been a fan of focusing just on productivity without focusing on other things as well. Productivity is a natural o

Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror

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

What do I wish existed in the world but doesn’t yet exist? And of the things that appear on that list, can you build any of them?

The search experience on the internet is dying. Google is no longer trying to organize the world’s information. It’s just scraping it, stealing it, an

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

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-E

Design is not what we make. Design is what we make possible.

Search engines — the window into the web for many people — top their results with pages containing thousands of words of auto-generated nothingness, p

honestly people are starving for more collective experiences, not more siloed hyper-personalized things

Exploring the internet together should be like exploring a vast old library with your friends. Wandering down different shelves, skimming the pages th

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There is simply no path forward for a news outlet of any meaningful size trying to support itself on social and search traffic. So what will be the A.

I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much