Joe Stampone

"Practice the art of small daily discomforts. Modern life is optimized for convenience and comfort. Your food can be delivered straight to your door. Your car seats can be heated. Your favorite show is available at the press of a button.

We all enjoy convenience and comfort, myself included. But our bodies and souls yearn for challenge. We want to b

Ken Griffin on how obsession wins:

“If you're not passionate about the field you're engaged in you won't have the grit or perseverance to compete with those who are.”

Buy time, not status.

“The way to escape competition is through authenticity.”

What is wonderful about The Great Differentiation, though, what gives me hope, is that people seem to be copying the desire to differentiate.

Instead of faking the form, they are emulating the essence: create something unique and true to you, something that only you have earned. Something different.

This is good advice for all of us.

Differentiate. Al

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: If you’re half in, you’re actually all out.

Even 90% in gets you nowhere. There’s something magical in that last little bit, simply because so few are willing to do it. That’s where you unlock new levels to the game. True mastery at your craft.

True mastery isn't about talent—it's about courage.

The courage to live a li

Everyone wants the summary. But the summary is what's left after someone else decided what matters. Their priorities aren't yours. Their filters aren't yours. When you operate on summaries, you're thinking with someone else's brain.

2.     Fuck, this is good, on why we want robots at work but humans in art, via Chris Paik. Tl;dr: in the economy of necessity, humans are friction. In the economy of meaning, they’re the point.

We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenie