Imran Yussuff
@imran
Imran Yussuff
How long does it take to write a post/essay?
How Life Sciences Actually Work: 2 weeks non-stop, so around 100-150 hours of combined thinking and writing
How to make friends over the internet: 12 hours over 2 days
A single Quarterly links post: usually 15 hours over a few days
Doing Good Better post: >100 hours over 6 weeks
Why You Should Start a Blog... See more
How Life Sciences Actually Work: 2 weeks non-stop, so around 100-150 hours of combined thinking and writing
How to make friends over the internet: 12 hours over 2 days
A single Quarterly links post: usually 15 hours over a few days
Doing Good Better post: >100 hours over 6 weeks
Why You Should Start a Blog... See more
Blog posts that have resonated at scale
“There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence – and in the end, you make it look like a quantum leap.”
James Dyson
For food, the abundance has been necessary to feed a growing population. But by addressing that issue, industrial production of calories has led to an obesity crisis and related healthcare costs.
A similar problem is happening with digital media. Social apps — largely accessed through smartphones — have helped us communicate, learn, stay connected... See more
A similar problem is happening with digital media. Social apps — largely accessed through smartphones — have helped us communicate, learn, stay connected... See more
Trung - SatPost
Self compassion
Produce something wonderful. What are we optimizing for?
Sociology professor Daniel Chambliss, who spent years researching the qualities of elite swimmers, on what creates excellence: "Excellence is mundane. Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together
... See morePlatforms like TikTok and Instagram are engines of distraction and cultural rot. They stand in front of the more difficult but more rewarding aspects of life: deep work, intimate connections with friends and loved ones, focused attention for hobbies with intrinsic rewards. By training users to crave constant novelty and the immediate approval of... See more