Jakob Greenfeld
- 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 soul? I love this; via @corymuscara
- 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 defenses will be down and they’ll be a more open version of themselves
- 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 days off.
- Build the company you want to work for, that’s how you become an entrepreneur. Write the book you want to read, that’s how you become an author. What you do will become who you are—you become xyz not by watching others, but by doing it yourself. What you create creates you:
- When startups start taking off, the founders usually can't tell what's changed. It's some combination of all the random things they did to make it take off, but it's hard to say which ones.
- 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 and domestic isolation