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“To be interesting, be interested.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
There are 1,002,632 residents in Austin. We just passed a million and are now the 12th most populous US city and the 5th largest in Texas.
Email UT professors, ask Faheem, put up fliers around town
Intention -> obstacle find Austin's most interesting resident -> but how? post Craigslist ad -> sketchy or no responses put fliers up, text friends,
quotes and inspiration on writing
“The temptation to save something for a future piece is a signal to use it now” - paraphrasing Annie Dillard
(A linked pair of writing dictums: “Don’t make things happen for no reason” and “Having made something happen, make it matter.”)
The temptation to do so cannot be overstated, but I must resist the invitation to fall in love with my own reflection on the page. I must also resist
Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep goi
Work that I created or collaborated on!
the best way to save an essay is to read it 🌻 Printernet is not about hoarding essays in a “read later” queue you’ll just be overwhelmed by. it’s abou
Printernet turns the best reading you find on the web into beautiful personal magazines. With Printernet you can: Save i
hiring, meetings, management frameworks, etc
When judging people for leadership positions, or for jobs that require strongly synthetic abilities, you should consider how well they are capable of
when people criticize us we ask one thing: do we actually think we're right? if yes, we keep going. if we think they have a point, we fix it fast. but
quotes and reading on boredom, curiosity, interestingness, and meaning
“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that
boredom is to creatives what cardio is to athletes
You do not have the context to appreciate those works. That is fine, but no reason to dismiss that which you do not understand. The better you under
a collection of questions worth keeping
What project would you be happy to devote 50 years of your life to, despite (or because of) it only being 10% done when you die? Ht @hannu @gwern and
Is there anything very different from what you are doing now that you thought about doing (or think about doing)?
How would I approach my work differently if focused on growth and engagement
collection for multitudes, polymaths, generalists, and being a full self
"Once you label me, you negate me" - Søren Kierkegaard
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman
Alex Komoroske — Complex Adaptivity All The Way Down