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A new piece of technology isn’t going to magically hone your craft. The work to hone your craft feels hard because it’s supposed to be hard.

A life can be poorly positioned and still be a great life. Leaving things unexplained is okay. Contradicting who we were 6 months ago is even more oka

You don’t need to be an authority. You need to be genuinely interested and one or two steps ahead of the person reading. In fact, you don’t even have

the closeness crisis” the widening gap between how digitally connected people are and how close they feel to others.

Because qualities like creativity, flow, love, aliveness, usefulness, connection, and joy are hard to measure, companies pick proxy metrics. Clicks ar

The problem with proxy metrics is they distort the incentives. You start with good intentions, like the desire for quality journalism. So you pick a m

Which of my strongest beliefs are formed on second-hand information vs. first-hand experience? If I could not compare myself to anyone else, how woul

Questions for establishing beliefs: What do they need to believe about you? What do they need to believe about themselves? Do they believe they’ve got

once the algorithm knows you, how do you break its picture of you? How do you encounter the inputs that might interest a future version of you, rather

In my mind, curiosity, instinct and the human experience should always come first. Optimise the boring bits, but leave space for exploration, critical

Following your own ideas and instincts is how we create genuine confidence and craft in our work. True satisfaction is achieved by liberating ourselve

Have a contrarian point of view. Traits of a top-tier contrarian view: People can disagree with it, like the thesis of a persuasive essay. It’s deb