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Status symbols It’s pretty astonishing how far people will go to announce various forms of status: College logo sweatshirts Flat abs A g

The secular decline in birth rates across the globe over the past seven decades has slowed population growth, raised average ages, and reshaped labor

Compared to what? 98% of the time, the state champ loses at nationals. Every billionaire but one isn’t the richest person in the world. Only one

The modern library Is this where books go to die? There are about 7500 public libraries in the US, and until recently, more than a third of the

It is not winter that defeats you. It is your insistence on summer. - Epictetus

Unhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.

When we’re captured by the death spiral of scarcity and dominance, we’re signing up for a journey that’s all about the destination, a destination we’r

Your mind isn't creating thoughts—your thoughts are creating your mind. Every time you revisit a particular thought loop, you're voting for it to beco

When I started writing this book I honestly didn’t know if anyone would find it interesting. I didn’t really care though.I felt compelled to make some

During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for medi

I’ve got a theory. When people don’t create music art ideas anything… they start creating problems instead. Unused energy gets weird.

“Working in the studio is like building a ship in a bottle. Playing live is like being on a rowboat in the ocean.” Jerry Garcia

Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart,[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (/də ˈwaɪ.ərt/;[2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army

Manipulation is a tactic to make someone react, so you can validate your victimhood.

“The reward for good work is more work.” And the punishment for bad work is no more work.

“It’s all invented anyway,” Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander write in The Art of Possibility, “So we might as well invent a story or a framew

The Having/Doing job gap It’s a dance between workers, bosses and the market. The most stable quadrant happens when a thoughtful and consistent

How To Say No Without Apologizing 1. No thank you. 2. I don’t do that. 3. It’s not for me. 4. That’s not my style. 5. I’m not the right person for tha

Focus on what you want. Don’t focus on what/who doesn’t want you. ~ Julian Paul

You can’t force readiness. What’s for you will be ready. What’s for you will want you. Right now. So let go of desiring to have what’s not yours and f

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

The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or

People who insist that every product decision should be metrics-driven would also have to logically admit that theirs will be the first job to get aut

Sometimes, back pain is felt in the thighs or even the ankles. But treating the part that hurts does nothing to address the real problem. Most b

If you want to change people's minds, you have to be patient. Almost nobody will come around to your position on the first encounter. Plant the seed,

We've fallen for the trap of thinking something doesn't exist if it isn't on the Internet. Maria Popova: "The internet is a surface level of the oce

“Because you’re the cheapest” If we choose you based on price, please don’t be surprised if we leave the moment someone else uses the same tactic

The paradox is that it takes discipline to stay open. Detachment is the easy reflex, like closing a window at the first sign of rain; it costs nothing

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietz

“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” —Teller

reduce until it’s clear and refine until it’s right

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

Bill Bernbach, founder of advertising agency DDB, reminds us that it is not enough to be right — you must also be compelling: "A dull truth will not

26 weapons grade parenting tips: 1/ Give them a "heads up," 5 minutes until bedtime, 10 minutes before leaving the playground 2/ Look at the world m

it is my strong belief that in a world of constant change and nearing AGI, rather than obsessing over teaching my children specific skills to compete

Doris Lessing on reading: “There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading on

Impatience is an expensive emotion. Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform pr

On: "To ignite the human spirit through movement"

Amazon: “to be Earth's most customer-centric company"

Stripe: “Increase the GDP of the internet.”

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