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People read nonfiction to learn and to feel. My framework for ensuring a blog post accomplishes both is to start with a first draft that focuses on "n

Being alive consists of nothing more than the sum of what we pay attention to.

The world is built by those who can think, but it is ran by those who can articulate.

You don’t discover who you are by introspecting in isolation. You discover who you are by noticing how you meet the world, and having a place where yo

Maybe you’re on a mission to collect more grandiose moments. That’s fair. But what does a moment really mean to you? Is it a glimpse of time colliding

The room holds us, but sometimes, that’s not why we stay. We actually stay because we don’t yet know how to live without its framing.

This is what trips many people up because they are only used to doing one specialized task within a business as an employee.

don’t confuse the decision with the result. A good process can produce bad outcomes, and a bad process can get lucky. Judge the process.

As a result, research as leisure activity is exuberantly undisciplined or antidisciplinary. In academia, you receive specific training in a narrow fie

If I want to explore something, I never think about attending a class; I do the reading on my own or seek out experts for conversations.

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditi

don’t confuse the decision with the result. A good process can produce bad outcomes, and a bad process can get lucky. Judge the process.

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditi

Where do dreams go when you stop chasing them? They hang just above your head on invisible strings. If you’ve put in the work, they’ll stick around u

I guess my motto is that in the beginning you might not know why you have an affinity for something, but you should run after it anyway.

When you’re working, there’s so much self-loathing. Everyone feels like their stuff is awful. When I was at CalArts I was studying painting—I’m a terr

Men share a joke that stretches over decades, held together by ritual and repetition, by silence and shoulder nudges, by the unspoken agreement that a

What I’m in search of is maybe hard to explain in a neat sentence, but, maybe, it’s some sense of resonance. You know when you’re reading and you’re l

Many people who are talented in their various fields have access to insight they can’t share with others. They simply see something we can’t. They try

In the glut of generated content, no one really speaks. No one risks themselves on the page.

That’s why taste is a responsibility. It’s not just about what you like. It’s about what you allow in. Taste is how you protect your mental environmen

There will always be creators. But the ones who stand out in this era are also curators. People who filter their worldview so cleanly that you want to

The third stage of culture in the zettabyte age, after the hipster and the nerd, is the zombie. If the hipster represents cultural taste as sorting al

perhaps with the commodification of education, perhaps with the acceleration of information capitalism, we began to mistake information for knowledge,

It’s widely believed that 90-95% of the thoughts people experience are repeated thoughts from the previous day. And many of those repeated thoughts ar

In the attention economy, the appearance of innovation often yields better returns than innovation itself.

The reader is no longer a co-creator of meaning, but a consumer of impressions. In such a system, the very possibility of serious thought begins to lo

If you serve as a mechanical slave to mass media and online algorithms, you’ll end up with intellectual diabetes. To find quality information, you hav

Happy has a boundless quality: unpredictable, even when it is at a low level. There is an openness, allowing another person to surprise and delight th

three types of data have been used to train ML models in drug discovery. 1). Compound library and characterization data, which consists of information

A point I’ve tried to hammer home is that tech in healthcare is only useful if enables a new workflow and as a result can change the economics of that

Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Yale Law School seemed like the perfect place to pursue an interdisciplinary path, where I could combine my math background with new legal studies,” s

How the Ivy League Broke America

Make a habit of reading writers you expect to disagree with. One idea that challenges your beliefs is worth a hundred ideas that confirms them

the depth of a conversation depends on how deeply seen you feel, not on the topic of conversation

How my internal musings fuelled my outer environment

I buried it under the weight of other people’s voices, voices I’d deemed more worthy than my own.

Be micro-ambitious. Put your head down and work with pride on whatever is in front of you. You never know where you might end up. Just be aware that t

Late bloomers don’t often know what they’re preparing for. They work blindly towards their goals. Their career paths are meandering, exploratory, rest

More recently I’ve kept repeating to myself, don’t abandon your vision. Decisiveness is knowing myself well enough to take the plunge, then the rest i