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Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t y

Who really has it better? Us bankers running around collecting more and more money, stressed by emails piling up, sitting in overly lit corporate spac

what is my purpose in life? vs. what brings me alive at THIS point in my life? What if purpose is just a moment-to-moment conversation with your sou

“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.” ― Miles Davis

"Today’s CMOs need to operate on a much quicker test-place-analyze-optimize cycle, know which of the thousands of marketing technology solutions can g

You need a point of view. Something you stand for. Something you believe that others don’t. Something you see that others are blind to. That’s the wri

It took me awhile to get used to. I would eye every upcoming cluster of people (mostly men) sitting idly around, thinking they were gonna be brown bag

It’s like taking a hallucinogenic drug, without all the bad stuff, like it being illegal and maybe killing you. You come back from the “trip” with a d

There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But

social theory: the best way to make new friends is to invite people to do an activity that will occupy enough of their brain capacity such that their

it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated

the world is a museum of obsessions

Idk who needs this but I’ve seen a few startups fail because of founder burn out. I haven’t seen any startups fail because a founder took a couple day

If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. I

I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't ju

The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.

The Internet needs to get much weirder. People out there are tired of deep-fried data, too, and want substance.

I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately ju

As Jeff Hammerbacher put it: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."

The subculture of erotic productivity is exactly where the second brain subculture was around 2015 – underrated, little known, but learning how to tap

Erotic Productivity = the act of creating from a place of desire

According to my time-logs, 18% of my working hours are performed while in a jacuzzi This fact is more important to my wellbeing and happiness than an

According to this study, remote workers watch over 3 hours more TV each week compared to in-office workers So out of the 4.5 hours we save each week

what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar a