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The highest form of self-respect is making choices your future self does not have to recover from.

we don’t think our way into new ways of living; we live our way into new ways of thinking.’ So it helps to treat life as a series of small experiments

@MajToure You are a victim of nothing. You are the creator of a world you do not like. Create something different.

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a

One of the most effective ways of becoming a smarter human being is learning facts that trigger negative emotions. It will teach you that your emotio

Happiness requires struggle. Without struggle, the world would lack meaning and our joys would feel empty. Be grateful for your struggles, because wit

People on the Internet were cruel to me, but nobody was crueler to me than I was to myself.

@tomieinlove the best human writers have a really interesting worldview based on lived experience which they articulate in essays, even if they mess u

Stop writing like a person who has things figured out. Write like a person who is figuring it out in front of you. That's the only voice that's ever h

However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI.

The English novelist John Fowles, asked for writing advice, once said something very similar:At heart, write always for yourself, not for family and f

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a

“Not everything that counts can be counted” - Einstein

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

goatherders on May 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How do you brand yourself as a freelancer? Yes, there are tons of resources

Let me say it again, because it’s that important: intentionally developing your Ask muscle is a REQUIREMENT for entrepreneurial success. The question,

Raise your standards, pick up the pace, sharpen your focus, and align your people. You don't need to bring in reams of consultants to examine everythi

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.” • Thomas Edison (1889)

Even Thomas Watson is reputed to have said, in 1943, “I think there is a world market for about five computers.”

“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”


You must remove all subjective language from your strategy and see what’s left. What is subjective language? Anything that’s in the eye of the beholde

Error 1 – Vague, wooly, “pretty” strategies In some (or if we’re honest many) cases, the reason a strategy doesn’t demand change from a business is be

This is contrarian value. When you decide to attack or neglect something in the category that everyone else cares about and in doing so unlock new ter

"Doing things that shouldn't be done in the first place faster and cheaper does not in my view constitute progress." Kevin Gray

**Enjoy the Journey** - Enjoy the journey itself, not just the destination. - Success is a starting point, not an end point. Snipped from Creator Sc

A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly

Focus means head down. Big picture means head up. The more you’re doing of one, the less you’re doing of the other. If you’ve been head-down on a task

What were their roots? Why had the company started? How did their backstory influence the work they did today and how might it affect their aspiration

Whether it’s articulated or not, every business is driven by one of two philosophies. A company is either competition-driven or story-driven.

I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't ju

There is nothing wrong with having financial goals and achieving milestones, but these are simply means to an end. If you believe that your agency exi

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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera

My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter

The Operating Manual for Your Nervous System

What if Anxiety Is a Habit, Not a Disorder?

@emollick Put in the reps. If you aren't hitting the chatGPT cap multiple times a day, you have 0 business reading a research paper The open area of

I've been asked by few first year PhD about how to start LLM research on X, say long context modeling. My number one suggestion -- though it seems a b

“From this point on, the intelligence of LLMs… will only continue to improve. Human intelligence will not.” OpenAI’s paper on using AI to debug AI cod

Writing code from scratch is gone. This was the most exciting part of the profession. Now what remains are debugging/fixing. The same concerns graphic

Memory Curator — A cognitive-care specialist who helps long-lived individuals review, preserve, compress, reorganize, or voluntarily release accumulat

The Curator’s gift is the ability to impose structure on complexity.

Curation is a form of love. You're saying: I thought about what would matter to you.

Curate to create, there’s no other wayThere’s no creation without inspiration.Every creator throughout history has morphed his interpretation of the w

Tim Denning describes looking at headlines of popular Medium articles, modifying a few words to relate them to his own experience and expertise, and t

“What works is being different. Don’t try to be liked. Find out how you’re different. Then be that. That’s where the power is. That’s what’s new. That

“When you’re trying to be original, you sound like everyone else trying to be original.” - Dan Klein

"Failure is a data point." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC

"Failure isn’t an indictment of your basic worth but rather a piece of valuable feedback." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC

what I've learned about fear is that if we stop, the only way through it is towards it.

Consistent and profitable growth is never easy, but it’s nearly impossible without the quality, talent, and mindset of its people. Source: Harvard Bus

Your company will grow as quickly as your customers determine it will grow.

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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur

Writers must therefore constantly ask: what am I trying to say? Surprisingly often they don’t know. Then they must look at what they have written an

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I've started to see imposter syndrome not as a personal failing but as a natural response to the gap between our interior lives and our exterior prese

Perfectionism rarely creates perfection. You procrastinate because you’re terrified of falling short. You abandon projects because they don’t live up

A conversation between Alex Dobrenko and Douglas Rushkoff on the spiritual nature of awe, rescuing the human from the machine, and why the future depe

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

A person spends years trying to become beautiful online. They finally achieve the exact face, body, lifestyle, and aesthetic they once fantasized abou