Collections

Core frameworks by Elon Musk (from The Book of Elon) The Algorithm : five steps, always in this order: Question every requirement, and tie each one to

“I think speed is the enemy of intimacy. Nothing nice is done fast – fast food, fast fashion. There’s no joy in speed. I hate optimizing things. I don

Consistency says, “We always look like this.”Coherence says, “We evolve, and you still know it is us.”

The half-life of disappointment When things don’t turn out the way you pictured, how long does it take for you to move on? Reducing this window

Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same

"Exceptional people are rare. When you find someone wonderful, invest in them. ·         When you find a great employee, pay them well. ·         When

As Maya Angelou said, "people will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." You want people to feel like they are i

“The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you w

The good worker trope falls apart when the world changes fast. It becomes a hindrance when job security wavers. And it doesn’t really pay off when AI

the “lump of labor” fallacy, the mistaken idea that there’s one long list of all the jobs that need to be done, and that list only ever gets shorter.

“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”— George Orwell

Exponential Tic tac toe with a 3 x 3 board is trivial and not much fun. Tic tac toe tic tac (5 in a row) with a 15 x 15 board is endlessly fasc

focus on quality. There’s no competitive advantage in volume. You are going to lose to the robots.

How To Create An Offer People Want To Buy 1 week ago Here are the steps I follow when creating a new offer for a product or service I want

Consistency says, “We always look like this.”Coherence says, “We evolve, and you still know it is us.”

whenever i make something, anything, the first question i start with is:how do i want someone to feel?

And doesn’t it all look different, wouldn’t your own story look different, if you knew how it was going to end?

all serious intellectual work happens on the page, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. If you want to contribute to the world of ideas, if you want to

Write only when you have something to say, do not inflate the void with plastic flowers Do not tell the reader how to feel, make them feel it themselv

Email your heroes: Most people who do things are never sufficiently appreciated for their work. You would be stunned by how rarely most writers, artis

And doesn’t it all look different, wouldn’t your own story look different, if you knew how it was going to end?

Democracy depends on reading, but not in the abstract. It depends on the kind of reading that slows us down, unsettles us, and teaches us to think bey

In every way, the literary life involves collecting: words and ideas, libraries and anthologies, yes, even architectural dictionaries. One of the writ

And doesn’t it all look different, wouldn’t your own story look different, if you knew how it was going to end?

all serious intellectual work happens on the page, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. If you want to contribute to the world of ideas, if you want to

Here is a real example from Norman Shumway discussing the rocky progress of heart transplantation. It took the crazy idea 22 years, between 1960 and 1

Sublime is an ethos-driven company. Here is what we believe: Intention > Attention The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make su

The Book of Elon: 69 Core Musk Methods by Eric Jorgenson), pp. 335-338. You are capable of more than you think. It’s possible for ordinary people to c

I saw a post on Reddit today about AI that said, “AI is data, and data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I genuinely need to si

I just fixed my dishwasher with the help of ChatGPT. A trivial task. I had been about to order a new one. So this software has increased the country's

I think it's the best time ever to walk into a business who has hardly any automations and get paid a huge check to help them automate everything. I b

The task of living is figuring out a way to build enough resilience to honor, respect and nurture your nature (to essentially cultivate values) so as

Rumi wrote: "What you seek is seeking you." Which means the version of your life you keep imagining isn't a fantasy you invented. It's a signal from s

My top takeaways from Matt MacInnis , COO/CPO at Rippling : 1. Extraordinary results demand extraordinary efforts. “If you ever find yourself in the

san francisco has a strange gravity, attracting people who want to build the future, and also those who want to be seen building the future. the resul

“I think speed is the enemy of intimacy. Nothing nice is done fast – fast food, fast fashion. There’s no joy in speed. I hate optimizing things. I don

If you launch and no one notices, launch again. We launched 3 times.

Core frameworks by Elon Musk (from The Book of Elon) The Algorithm : five steps, always in this order: Question every requirement, and tie each one to

“I think speed is the enemy of intimacy. Nothing nice is done fast – fast food, fast fashion. There’s no joy in speed. I hate optimizing things. I don

Maybe cognitive minimalism— identifying which mental loops actually matter, and pruning the rest— isn't deprivation but liberation.

Design to be understood. And design so that the inevitable confusion of the newbie doesn’t get worse. Because without your active intervention, it wil

The Algorithm (by Elon Musk) : five steps, always in this order: Question every requirement, and tie each one to a named person rather than a departme

The opposite of mass The mass market is seductive. It’s ‘everyone’. The mass market is powerful, but it’s only slightly interested. The opposit

I think a lot of people want to be but they don’t want to do. They want to have written a book, but they don’t want to write the book. They want to be

If you define your aim as a noble, generous, secure, kindly individual – knowing that all thingsare states of consciousness – you can easily tell whet

This teaching begins with self-observation. Secondly it asks, "What do you want?" And then itteaches detachment from all negative states and attachmen

We must practice separating ourselves from our negative moods and thoughts in the midst of allthe troubles and disasters of daily life. No one can be

The pull toward the analog is less about retro aesthetics than about what those objects symbolize: presence, tactility, memory that lasts.

$5300 in $100s: The verdict Yesterday I wrote about a free event we were throwing which cost $100 to attend, but the full $100 was