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“It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.” — Muhammad Ali

I find that my life improves a lot when I shrink the time horizon. Instead of worrying about long-term goals, I just focus on the next hour. Do one th

When hope feels lost, remember: history can turn in a single day. After decades of war and bloodshed, peace can emerge in an instant. We give up whe

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter...like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to noti

James Clear on taking the first step: “Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't nee

“It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.” — Muhammad Ali

"If something is wrong, fix it. But train yourself not to worry. Worry fixes nothing." - Hemingway Action over Stress

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.”


When someone underestimates you, let them. Do not prove anything. Do not correct them. Do not hint. Never force them to revise their model of you

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.

One of my favorite quotes in psychoanalysis, from Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok: "What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the s

telling your brain "i know you don't wanna do the thing and it'll be very uncomfortable for you at first but you can do it buddy. it'll be fine" is ac

“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

“sometimes we go out in the world for discovery and to learn new things, but sometimes you just need to keep walking the path near you. Walk it over a

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.

“sometimes we go out in the world for discovery and to learn new things, but sometimes you just need to keep walking the path near you. Walk it over a

His many wise words are all downstream from his wise life, generous friendship, and faithful devotion to beloved goods.

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

So much productivity is fueled by negative emotions. You're afraid of getting a bad grade as a teen, so you study for tomorrow's big test late into th

If happiness is the result of our actions, then we need to stop asking ourselves how to be happy. Rather, we should be asking ourselves how to be.

@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

“ You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage to pleasantly,smilelingly, unapologetically say ‘no’ to other things.And th

So what is truly the difference between collecting and curating?I believe that collecting is accumulation. Curating requires editing and thought. And

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.

what if we just didn’t do social media?There are a few brands doing something interesting in this space. Dorsey, a jewelry brand, has an Instagram pag

Food for thought… how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and c

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