Katharina Sommerkamp
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Katharina Sommerkamp
"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." — Ernest Hemingway
‘When you buy something cheap and bad, the best you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it. When you buy something expensive and good, the worst you’re going to feel about it is when you buy it.’
Satyajit Rout • #113 - The funny ways we think about money
Ideation feeds on lateral thinking and free association. And the farther one can look the more there is to learn and connect. In this sense, crossing cultural borders – replete with unique languages, customs, traditions, politics, religions, senses (sights, sounds, smells, tastes), technologies, and philosophies – is the most expansive lateral... See more
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
Worry, at its core, is the repetitious experience of a mind attempting to generate a feeling of security about the future, failing, then trying again and again and again – as if the very effort of worrying might somehow help forestall disaster.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
As psychologist Barry Schwartz puts it: “Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Affliction of Abundance
Otto von Bismarck: “Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others
Reid Hoffman • Letters to a Young Investor With Reid Hoffman
Cutting off options is hard work. And it is risky. But the alternative is even riskier. Those who cannot commit, those who cannot say “no,” are doomed to everlasting conflict.