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Narrow the aperture of your attention enough to take in any one thing fully, and it becomes a portal to everything. Anneal that attention enough so that you see whatever and whoever is before you free from expectation, unfiltered through your fantasies or needs, and it becomes love.
Maria Popova • Favorite Books of 2025
Reliability is magnetic because humans are hardwired to avoid risk, so once you prove yourself trustworthy and reliable, you become the default choice for opportunities without ever asking for them
The hand salute traces its origins to medieval times, when chivalry dictated that armored knights lift the visor of their helmet as a sign of respect to one another. After saluting, those knights might face off against one another in savage combat. Yet they understood the value of looking one another in the eye beforehand. They understood that a... See more
A Man Should Know: How to Introduce Himself
If we automate everything away, somebody still needs to make decisions about what we’re doing. In the end, when labor compresses, more of the job is judgment from the top of the pyramid.
Sari Azout • Every Job Will Become an Art or Die
There’s a quote from author Robert Brault that I think about often:
“We are kept from our goals not by obstacles but by a clear path to lesser goals.”
Sahil Bloom's Curiosity Chronicle • The Hard-Earned Win: Avoiding the Easy Path
Perhaps grief can be seen as a kind of exalted state where the person who is grieving is the closest they will ever be to the fundamental essence of things. Because, in grief, you become deeply acquainted with the idea of human mortality. You go to a very dark place and experience the extremities of your own pain — you are taken to the very limits
... See moreMaria Popova • The Engine of Our Redemption: Nick Cave on How to Use Your Suffering
Calvin calls this a “counterpositioning philosophy. If everyone is shifting their marketing to AI, think about the things that are going to stand out, the things that can’t be done with AI.”
Packy McCormick • Ramp at $1 Billion
1. Make requirements less dumb, 2. Delete the part or process, 3. Simplify and optimize, 4. Accelerate cycle time, and 5. Automate
Packy McCormick • Ramp at $1 Billion
Carlo Rovelli, in The Order of Time , goes even further. He argues that time as we experience it is not fundamental to the universe's structure; it emerges from more basic physical processes and our particular perspective as observers within the system. “The idea that a well-defined now exists throughout the universe is an illusion,” he writes, “an... See more