jenna

"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP

James Dyson on solving problems:

“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”

There are investments you can’t make from a structured, nine-to-five, narrowly teleological environment. You have to let your life go fallow sometimes, like a crop rotation giving the land time to bring forth new fertility.

Trusting the process becomes much easier when you regularly run into these little reminders that we’re all kinda going through the same ups and the same downs... “The tough thing is that consistency can feel like it’s not paying off for long stretches of time. You feel aimless, like you’re going nowhere. You’re not improving as fast as you like.... See more

Every once in a while, I meet a person who radiates joy. These are people who seem to glow with an inner light. They are kind, tranquil, delighted by small pleasures, and grateful for the large ones. These people are not perfect. They get exhausted and stressed. They make errors in judgment. But they live for others, and not for themselves. They’ve... See more

“A simple rule for life and work:

Don’t rush, but don’t wait.

Thoughtful action.”

Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.