Alex Jungius
@jungle
Alex Jungius
This realisation is alarming at first, but it's ultimately deeply reassuring. As the UK organisation Action for Happiness likes to point out, one of the biggest causes of misery is the way we chronically "compare our insides with other people's outsides". We're all mini-New York Timeses or White Houses, energetically projecting an image of calm... See more
Oliver Burkeman • Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer.
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more
gilest.org: Clarity hacks
Workshop tips:
use the rule of 3 on your content: tell them what you’re going to talk about, talk about it, tell them what you talked about
build engagement throughout the entire workshop, for example through questions (don’t make them all deep and reflective - you mostly want people to bring the attention back to the room)
ask questions to the whole
Naval Ravikant's latest podcast with Chris Williamson is mind-blowing.
He revealed:
• Why he deleted his calendar
• Three decisions that determine 90% of your life's outcome
• Why most anxiety comes from a problem few understand
10... See more
You talk about the economy, you can write, you can have beautiful charts, you can wax away poetically, you can study stuff and post on Twitter...If you don't put capital at risk, I don't care. It just doesn't matter.
Sometimes it's harder, sometimes there are moments where you're like, man, I really wish I could escape this moment and go check Instagram or something, but instead I'm just going to sit here and my kid's crying and dinner's terrible because the kids are just being total jerks and I'm tired and not feeling great and my wife is upset because she's... See more
J.E. Petersen • Uncomfortable on Purpose
