"You will love whatever you pour your heart into. Passion follows commitment." from a JamesClear email dated 28 Dec 2023

Sam Altman What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in

"The amateur does not know what to do. The master knows what not to do."

"Of all the ways you could be spending your precious time and attention, it is very unlikely that you are currently spending it in the optimal way. The only path I know for figuring out a better way to spend your life is to sit and think. You simply have to carve out some time to think carefully about what you're doing, why you're doing it, and wha

The main challenge with this collection is that its primary contents are three-dimensional objects; unlike text-based documents, the materials do not easily self-describe.

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While your instinct will be to go with the fancier titles, don’t fall into that trap. A “vice president” title at a small marketing firm is different from a VP title at a Fortune 500 company, is different from a VP title at a consulting firm . . . you get it. The same goes for common job titles like “associate” or “executive.” Each can come with ex

Norah Jones So it really happens in the bathtub when the door’s locked. A lot of my voice memos have the bath running in the background. **You’re pro-bath.** There’s a really beautiful Sylvia Plath [line] about how a hot bath can fix just about everything. I’m on board with that notion. Newsday 17 Mar 2024 p C3 #Music

The 50-foot-high lighthouse, whose first floor serves as Old Field Village Hall, stands on a peninsula were its predecessor was built for $4,000 in 1824 — 200 years ago next year, according to lighthousefriends.com, a website maintained by national lighthouse enthusiast Kraig Anderson. The current light station was erected in 1869 and cost&nbs

"The information you consume each day is the soil from which your future thoughts are grown." from a James Clear email dated 21 Dec 2023 #JamesClear

Writer C. Raymond Beran on friendship: "What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better, or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been decla