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Michael Lewis on how your narrative crafts your character: If you listen to people, if you just sit around and listen, you’ll find there are patter

"It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set." —Josh Waitzkin

Books and standup comedy are the rare mediums that are usually created by a single person. Because of this they can be more daring and go to more inte

“Truly showing belief in others will buy them a ticket to someplace they never knew.” -h/t sean feeney

I like thinking small. I like thinking of my reader as an individual.And even if I did this out of sheer stubbornness at first, I’ve come to think thi

when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.

“What should I do with my life?!?!” Here is what I wish I’d known every time I felt lost. TOP TIP: Don’t try to figure it out all on your own. That’

How to design a high-value community

If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself. The lesson is simply: speak up. It's OK to slip into advocac

look at how the word “community” itself has been warped in recent years into a cynical marketing cliché to rival “storyteller” — annexed as the torche

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six

We need the right kind of climate optimism

We Need the Right Kind of Climate Optimism

Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine

Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale

Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog

For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

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How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.

In a model, agents are interchangeable. Consumer A and Consumer B have different preference curves, yes, but they respond to the same incentive struct

🧱Alternative funding model (inspired by cooperative breweries) Get 1,000 people to chip in $1,000. Make them members/ co-owners. Put each person's

If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other

The future of community: a future for communities | thesephist.com

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