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Fuck AI let’s Dance18
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In userPromptKeywords.ts, the company with the world’s most advanced language model was detecting user frustration with: /\b(wtf|shit|fuck|horrible|aw

No matter how rapidly technology changes, I am coalescing around some core beliefs: Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. Things that are

I love designing and building things for the web, but I’m mourning an industry that does not share the ideals I once thought it did. I understand why

Live long and healthy17
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Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day? - Shannon Odell

AMPK enhances your metabolism is by stimulating the creation of more mitochondria, a process called mitochondrial biogenesis. Having more mitochondria

The reason rapamycin has so many diverse applications is thanks to a property that Sehgal had observed, but never explored, which is that it tends to

Apps & Services2
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WidgetWorx 2.1 » My Mac Apps » iCloud Kicker

Practical Meditation Advice13
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A helpful phrase to remember when dealing with distractions of any kind is, let it come, let it be, let it go. Don’t try to suppress it, just let it c

When someone with a regimented practice that’s gone stale comes to me for advice, one suggestion I almost always give is, “see if you can just do noth

Introversion vs Extroversion11
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In my own experience, for example, I long noticed I was triggered by people who were loud and overly expressive. I eventually realized that this was b

Die intensive Bindung verliert heute zunehmend an Bedeutung. Sie ist vor allem unproduktiv, denn allein schwache Bindungen beschleunigen Konsum und Ko

Random Resonance ✨18
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Es war einer von diesen Tagen, wie sie im Leben nicht sehr oft vorkommen. Ich konnte mich noch erinnern, wie ich als Kind das erste Mal merkte, dass i

Plötzlich wurde ihm bewusst, was er seit einiger Zeit immer öfter fühlte: Er war in seinem Leben an einem besonderen Punkt angelangt. Nachdenklich hol

Analogue Ponderings2
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This is because you can type faster than you can handwrite. When it’s possible to keep up with a speaker and type verbatim notes, that’s what students

slow is better9
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Maybe the future of coding isn’t just faster. Maybe it’s also slower in a way, on purpose.

AI's environmental impact0
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Visual Front End2
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Earth 🌍4
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change the world asap4
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There is no reason the world must stay this way, the internet has already rebirthed some informal skill transfer that once existed. This constitutes a

The kids are joining running clubs, buying “dumb” phones, woodworking, rocking Walkmans, joining supper clubs, etc because their lives have been swall

Was dem Aktionär gegeben wird, wurde dem Arbeiter zuvor gestohlen. Friedrich Engels

Design Inspo6
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Art Deco was lavish, made with expensive materials and great effort. It wasn’t too concerned with cost or function. It was a celebration of beauty and

Art Deco Will Be the Visual Language of 2021 - DESK Magazine

Memento Mori6
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You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The w

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside i

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. – Joan Rivers

Design lessons and advice4
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One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s

Over the years, and especially through my time growing Behance, I have had the opportunity to follow and work with all kinds of designers from around

Interfaces used to be the solution. “There’s an app for that” was music to our ears.But now interfaces are overused. They’re getting in the way. Inste

Across all creative fields, what isn’t there is just as important as what is there. In fashion, Coco Chanel advised, “Before you leave the house, look

keep moving1
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself

Raising children23
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Wir sind so oft nicht wirklich präsent, weil wir andere Dinge im Kopf haben. Wenn unsere Kinder uns eine Frage stellen und wir gar nicht so richtig zu

Most parents love their children, and it would seem terrible to admit that you would be better off if someone you loved didn’t exist. More than that,

When you ask people about their life’s meaning and purpose, parents say that their lives have more meaning than those of nonparents. A study by the so

Winnicott’s crucial insight was that the parents’ agony was coming from a particular place: excessive hope. Their despair was a consequence of a cruel

good use cases for ai8
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So how do we do it? Let’s imagine that we want to come up with 20 ideas for marketing slogans for a new mail-order cheese shop. The AI can generate th

I can explore Aristotle, Kant, and Wittgenstein in dialogue with AI. We learn far more through dialogue than we do by monologue. The same goes for sim

But there are already signs that AI can help. Research has successfully demonstrated that it is possible to correctly determine the most promising dir

Here's a simple thing you can do when traveling to countries where they don't speak the language. For many years, I gratefully used Google Translate t

genau mein humor / just my humor14
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Die weißen Brösel lagen überall auf meinem Mathebuch. Ich fing gerade mit Funktionen an. Leider kapierte ich nicht, wie die Funktionen funktionierten.

I’m retired in the sense that I was tired yesterday and am tired again today. – @dgar@aus.social

Thoughts on Design and Beauty7
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When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic. We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort11
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Almost everything that holds meaning, weight, and gravity, cannot be reached by a shortcut, by sheer force alone. But by acceptance. Acceptance that w

There are necessary developmental thresholds someone has to pass through, and there's no real salve or proxy for it. You can give advice from a vantag

you need to accumulate your own mistakes for someone to be able to give you personalized, specific advice. And you need to put in the reps to accumula

Experience Is Incompressible

From thinking to DOING21
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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. – Jean-Luc Godard

you need to accumulate your own mistakes for someone to be able to give you personalized, specific advice. And you need to put in the reps to accumula

But it’s only when you’ve been doing something for a long time that you realize the only advice that matters is to do more of the thing.

Practical AI Advice9
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The key to working with your timid scribe is understanding its strengths and limitations. My experience with AI so far has shown me that AI is brillia

How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI

I felt the same pride I used to feel from writing elegant code, maybe more. Because I wasn't proud of how it worked—I was proud that it worked. Real p

Coding is now accessible to anyone who can think clearly. Designers who understand systems. Teachers who grasp how people learn. Writers who structure

big questions and bittersweet feelings10
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Ich konnte mir nicht vorstellen, dass ich irgendwann das Leben nicht mehr ein wenig wie ein Spiel ansehen wollte. Nicht mehr neugierig sein würde. Kei

Auf meiner Seite roch es unter der Kuppel der Linden, die über den Zaun des Friedhofs wuchsen, durchsichtig süß. Und von den Kastanien am Straßenrand

Vielleicht waren das hier die einzigen Stunden mit Beate, die es je geben würde. Aber selbst dann war eines schon klar: Es hatte sich bereits gelohnt.

Schön, in einer Sommernacht durch so einen Duft zu fahren. Weil es so ein plötzliches Gefühl von Jetzt war. Jetzt war Sommer. Er würde vorbeigehen, ab

Writing32
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Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit” and then take off your “bad writer” hat

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Es war ja nicht so, als könnte ich die Schule nicht leiden. Ich ging sogar ganz gerne hin. Wegen der Leute. Was also gewissermaßen erklärte, wofür ich

Reminders to live in the present4
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Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends upon thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.

Wir sind so oft nicht wirklich präsent, weil wir andere Dinge im Kopf haben. Wenn unsere Kinder uns eine Frage stellen und wir gar nicht so richtig zu

You get what you pay – pricing and value2
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If I do a job in 30 minutes it’s because I spent 10 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.

wholesome1
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Having better conversations1
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Meditation41
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If you let go a little, you will find a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will find a lot of peace. If you let go absolutely, you will find absol

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

We may meditate in hopes that it will lower our stress and anxiety in everyday life, but the practice of meditation is actually about learning to embr

Nobody said it was going to be easy1
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Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is har

Collect, Curate, Connect4
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Curiosity is voracious–the more you know the more you want to know; the more connections you make between the different bits of knowledge; the more id

Like many other artists, I collect ideas. And every morning at 10am, I get a random text message containing an idea that I’ve saved in the past. Ambie

My collecting took a more formal basis once I figured out content management systems, or figuring out ways to structure my collecting on the web. It s

Creativity: Theory and Practice24
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Try writing about why the work is important, or spend some time reflecting on times in the past where you’ve felt most connected to it.

Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous 'I don’t know.' Wisława Szymborska

Obviously, collaborations can work with idea generation too, but I think the most important part of idea generation is getting ideas yourself, then ta

Making sense of AI30
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The issue is that in order to learn to think critically, problem-solve, understand abstract concepts, reason through novel problems, and evaluate the

But there are already signs that AI can help. Research has successfully demonstrated that it is possible to correctly determine the most promising dir

It may be that working with AI is itself a form of expertise. It is possible that some people are just really good at it. They can adopt Cyborg practi

prompts1
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Writing Style Prompt Focus on clarity: Make your message really easy to understand. Example: "Please send the file by Monday." Be direct and concise:

Motivation vs Procrastination32
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Neurowissenschaftler haben mittlerweile gezeigt, dass bei chronischen Prokrastinierern tatsächlich eine veränderte Hirnaktivität im präfrontalen Korte

Der Psychologe und Forscher Timothy Pychyl, inzwischen im Ruhestand, beschreibt Prokrastination als "emotion-focused coping": Indem wir Aufgaben aufsc

Dieser Text hätte vor knapp zwei Jahren erscheinen sollen. Zeit genug hatte ich, aber das ist das Problem mit genug Zeit: Man hat sie auch noch am näc

Prokrastination: Dieser Text Hätte Vor Knapp Zwei Jahren Erscheinen Sollen | ZEIT ONLINE

wasted youth1
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Eine Schwimmbadpommes ist halt mehr als nur eine Pommes. Es ist in Fett getränkte Jugend, Sorglosigkeit und das Gefühl, dass der Sommer unendlich ist.

Everything's gonna be be okay5
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Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. – Joan Rivers

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So

Observations2
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Design Satisfaction and Its Opposite I am not thrilled with the new design for a project I’m about to implement. When I think about it, I always star

putting soup in a square tupperware...... it’s just not right. it should be a circle one which is the shape of soup

Marketing & Sales11
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Things I wrote / said5
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PKM8
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Don’t become overprotective of your main notes to the point where you stop making them. A main note’s contents can be as simple as an idea and a link

My Perfect PKM / Note-Taking App Native Mac and mobile UI/UX and local first principle of @craftdocsapp Nested tags UX of @BearNotesApp Textbundle imp

At 47 years old, I still wrestle with these questions. I know people who never care about the things I obsess over—like whether to use Notion, Obsidia

Sublime Internet (meta)7
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Sorting notes is not a waste of time5
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Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will

Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists. We perceive, filter, and collect data, then curate an experience

Data collection is inherently creative. Depending on the data you choose to collect from the world, you can begin to see the world from a different pe

People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”

Collecting Things6
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Data collection is inherently creative. Depending on the data you choose to collect from the world, you can begin to see the world from a different pe

Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists. We perceive, filter, and collect data, then curate an experience

Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will

People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”

Design Communication44
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If a designer shows you work in progress, it’s a great sign. It means they’ve moved beyond a fear that all you’ll see is the broken stuff to a willing

Look, you can get a website for $500. You can also get a website for $70 million. The former is gonna have less stuff on it than the latter. (Neither

Successful design projects need equal participation from the client and the designer. Yet the design process remains a mystery to the people who buy i

The single biggest improvement is to flip that around and just show the final result. I understand why designers present their process. They’ve done a

Woo Spectrum7
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We all navigate the strange territory between science and spirituality in our own way. The Woo Spectrum offers a map for this journey – not to judge w

Based on both personal experience and scientific evidence, I’m convinced about practices that might be considered “woo” such as plant medicine, breath

Conversations can become binary and polarized when we lack language to describe our beliefs. The Woo Spectrum helps us understand and describe our rel

Schools of Meditation8
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Well, the Buddha taught that this misconception is actually the primary cause of our suffering, and keeps us from finding lasting contentment. He laid

So we can say that the practice of Vipassana is to really look. To notice that much of our experience is a self-imposed limiting construct, and that s

You see, the Buddha claimed we’re are all deluded, that we don’t experience reality as it really is. Modern science backs this up, with a lot of studi

Tantra vs Vipassana

Rethinking Work1
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In some ways, however, this shift has already been occurring. In 1865 the average British man worked 124,000 hours over his lifetime, as did people in

How People Journal1
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The nice thing about this journaling habit is that I have all of the entries. I know exactly what I was thinking at the time. So I grabbed a bunch of

EAA & BFSG15
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EN 301549 geht über WCAG hinaus 💡 Die EN 301549 ist die Norm zum Nachweis der Konformität mit dem BFSG und beinhaltet die WCAG, geht aber in ihren An

Durchsetzung des BFSG 🛂 Behörden haben die Aufgabe, anlassbezogen zu prüfen, also wenn sich jemand beschwert. 🧐 Sie prüfen aber auch ohne Anlass, sti

Keine Übergangsfrist für Websites im BFSG 🤔 Das Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG) enthält Grauzonen hinsichtlich der Anwendung auf Websites. 📌 F

Konformität mit dem BFSG durch harmonisierte Normen 📌 Das BFSG formuliert Barrierefreiheitsanforderungen allgemein (wahrnehmbar, bedienbar, robust) o

Arguments against bad and inaccessible UX4
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Usability Issues Caused by Infinite Scrolling Despite the benefits discussed above, infinite scrolling does have several drawbacks, which can impair t

Even the guy who invented the infinite scroll later regretted it. These interfaces are not designed to help you—swiping and scrolling are rarely the b

Severe problems start showing up when we introduce overlays, anchor links, image galleries, and dynamic views into our interfaces. For example, if a u

Disabling buttons can cause more problems for users than benefits. Missing feedback When you click a disabled button, nothing happens. The button does

Let's Make the Web Accessible for All! #a11y8
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When you use the <object> element, you can provide content between its opening and closing tags to be used as a fallback for when the linked image doe

Design for Color Blindness Things To Keep In Mind ✅ Red-/green deficiencies are more common in men. ✅ Use blue if you want users to perceive color as

Disabling buttons can cause more problems for users than benefits. Missing feedback When you click a disabled button, nothing happens. The button does

Breathe in, breathe out23
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When you're excited or stressed, the aperture of your visual window shrinks. When you're relaxed, the aperture of your vision expands.

A Slow Breathing Excercise Follow these steps, taken from Kung-Fu & Wim Hof certified instructor Kitaru Waga : Find a comfortable position where you

When you're excited or stressed, the aperture of your visual window shrinks. When you're relaxed, the aperture of your vision expands.

To activate the sympathetic nervous system: narrow your vision. Go into “Portrait Mode” and let everything else fall into the background. To activate

Building habits4
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While useful, the lists of goals, obstacles, skills, and mastery provided above can obscure just how simple the underlying process really is: intentio

Increasing the power of consciousness isn’t a mysterious process. It’s a lot like weight training. You simply do exercises where you practice sustaini

Repeating simple tasks with a clear intention can reprogram unconscious mental processes. This can completely transform who you are as a person.

When you truly see yourself as a healthy person, your habits will reflect this. You’ll choose the side salad over fries without even having to think a

Thoughts on Education11
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Cheating was already common in schools. One study of eleven years of college courses found that when students did their homework in 2008, it improved

Imagine introducing high-quality AI tutors into the flipped classroom model. These AI-powered systems have the potential to significantly enhance the

Some assignments ask students to “cheat” by having the AI create essays, which they then critique—a sneaky way of getting students to think hard about

For example, we know that in-class lectures are not the most effective way to teach and that topics need to be interwoven together in order for studen

Embrace the Ordinary: Letting Go of Greatness Sets Us Free2
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Truly doing justice to the astonishing gift of a few thousand weeks isn’t a matter of resolving to ‘do something remarkable’ with them. In fact, it en

Cosmic insignificance therapy is an invitation to face the truth about your irrelevance in the grand scheme of things. To embrace it, to whatever exte

North Star8
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Do not demand to be appreciated, but let your satisfaction be the pleasure of others . – The Yoga of Eating by Charles Eisenstein

The Little Chap Who Follows Me A careful man I want to be — a little fellow follows me. I do not dare to go astray, for fear he’ll go the self-same wa

Perhaps most of all, self grows through self-importance; its antidote is healthy humility. Being humble means being natural and unassuming, not being

How to Sell Design10
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If you and I were to design a chair together, we’d have to consider some factors from the get-go. Of course, we’d consider the seat’s size, the height

Design isn’t magic and it isn’t art. It’s a craft. Design solves a problem within a set of given constraints. We’ll talk about why those constraints m

A well-designed world is a better world. I love knowing that a thoughtful piece of user interface makes someone’s life go a bit easier, whether it’s d

If the project is big enough, you may have a couple of payments due at agreed-upon milestones, with a final payment on completion. I advise designers

Effective leadership4
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This tempo and cadence is crucial for effective leadership. Even though you may not think that people want it, and even if people themselves think the

When you are asking people to do something, lead with a recommendation of when it should be done by. Be explicit about this, but open to negotiation.

Deadlines really help human beings get things done. The only way that I've written books is because I set myself a challenging, but not impossible, sc

Parkinson's Law: It's Real, So Use It

Setting goals6
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Goals are tools to shape who you become, and if you don't set sufficiently ambitious ones, you're unlikely to grow.

Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset 📝 Sari Azout discusses the importance of having a growth mindset. 📌 When she experiences setbacks, like an email cam

Deadlines really help human beings get things done. The only way that I've written books is because I set myself a challenging, but not impossible, sc

Beyond science?1
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Meaning Systems 💡 Wittgenstein demonstrated that an evidentiary understanding of reality isn't enough. 💡 People create meaning systems with their com

Books (Fiction)3
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Science of happiness4
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Carrying out five random acts of kindness a week dramatically improves your happiness.

There is nothing more satisfying than being loved for who you are and nothing more painful than being loved for who you’re not but pretending to be.

“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely t

The attachment we have to an individual can supersede an overall decrease in our quality of life, and so the love we usually have toward our children

Expressive Headlines2
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Exploring Non-Duality15
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With nondual recognition, this is not the case. You can directly observe and explicitly think about the fact that you don't feel like a self and don't

My sense, based on personal experience and observing others, is that you taking to the practice depends on your ability to catch a glimpse of non-dual

Introductions to non-duality I still think that one of the best introductions to non-duality in general is the conversation series Angelo had on ZDogg

One of the most widely respected non-dual teachers today is Adyashanti, who originally studied Zen formally but began to teach more direct path style

Wise Words 🦉15
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. – C. G. Jung

If life is short, we should expect its shortness to take us by surprise. And that is just what tends to happen. You take things for granted, and then

A wise man said: Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?” At the second gate ask, “Is

There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all. —PETER DRUCKER

Limits of Growth? Only cancer never stops growing8
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Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others. -OH, on building teams and brand commu

After all, degrowth isn’t just about the economy. It’s about culture. For example, you might try swapping or trading your future fashion rather than f

I don’t know if people develop such a deep connection to the things they buy these days. Many people have a strong desire to possess the latest thing,

I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. I once wrote that every en

Answers I wish I had in the moment1
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if someone writes to you we need to talk write back we certainly do so they’ll feel stressed too

I ♥︎ reading2
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Books that make you forget to get off at your station. Books that make you go to sleep way too late. Books you just can't put down.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full s

War, Peace, and Appeasement1
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Hinter dem Ruf nach Frieden verschanzen sich die Mörder. Paul Spiegel

WHOA2
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This rant via Shalom Auslander I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by

Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an ar

Self Love ~ Be gentle to yourself8
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Regaining focusThe main thing I realized recently is how lost my mind has become. I stopped meditating, I stopped reading books, and I'm consuming an

Schedule a worry hour → let it all out, and be done with it Focus on what you can control → stoics knew Trust your future self → it will handle shit –

Reframe non-productive time. One of the reasons the exploration phase of the work is low value is that most of it doesn’t look like work. It’s lots of

Let yourself fall. Learn to observe snakes. Plant impossible gardens. Let someone dangerous in for tea. Make small Signs that say “yes” and spread the

Reminders that i love my work2
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Designing is not a profession but an attitude – László Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion 1947

We have arrived at a somewhat cold and lonely aesthetic, devoid of any sense of our identifying quality as humans: the ability to dream.

Type Love2
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type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters

Retain more from what you consume1
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The Blank Sheet (Reading Method) Before you start reading a new book, take out a blank sheet of paper. Write down what you know about the book/subject

Teams that work ~ friendly collaboration1
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Use Remojis (remote emojis) 🐢 =  I need more time on this 🤕 = said with sarcasm 🧠 = let's think before we take action ❤️‍🩹 = I'm feeling sensitive tod

Priorities and Balance3
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Work-Life Balance 📝 Chris Pedregal prioritizes being a good dad, partner, and CEO. 😩 He believes he can only excel at two out of the three roles at an

At first I felt overwhelmed and anxious about the situation. I started to feel like the constraints of fatherhood would hold me back. Every minute tha

Productivity for Parents

One Tool To Rule Them all?2
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The idea of having this giant graph where all your data is hyperlinked is cute, but in practice, it’s completely unnecessary. Things live in separate

Unbundling Tools for Thought

pacifism vs violence8
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Tragically, four children are reported to have been killed. However, compared to almost any other military operation, this act of mass sabotage appear

But if this Trojan Horse operation was as precise as it appears to have been, then it ranks among the most ethical acts of self-defense in memory. The

Sometimes, Violence Really Is the Answer

“Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They

What’s the meaning of it all?11
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Consider how much time you spend thinking—in even the subtlest way, in the back of the simulator—about what others think of you. Be mindful of doing t

The one thing you can’t escape in your life is yourself. Anyone who’s traveled long enough knows this. It’s eventually clear we carry with us on the r

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's w

Vegan2
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Veganismus ist also im Grunde das Gegenteil von extrem. Extrem ist es, jährlich viele Milliarden Tiere zu züchten, zu halten, auszubeuten, leiden zu l

how to live like a stoic4
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“I am convinced that life is 10% what happens and 90% how I react to it.”

None of us can control our emotions. We can only control our reactions to our emotions.

Things to avoid to put into my body5
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If sugar is a counterfeit for spiritual sweetness, then artificial sweeteners such as saccharin and aspartame are a counterfeit of a counterfeit. They

Sugar offers a hollow sweetness that one can easily detect through careful, attentive eating. If you slowly chew and taste an oversweetened food, you'

Sugar is a shoddy counterfeit for the real sweetness of life. Often as children we were given "treats" as rewards, for being in some way "good." The w

Ozempic® may cause serious side effects, including: Possible thyroid tumors, including cancer.

clear communication - signal vs noise1
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curious anecdotes1
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In the early days of FedEx, Smith had to go to great lengths to keep the company afloat. In one instance, after a crucial business loan was denied, he

Music1
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Programming Concepts1
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Business-ing differently5
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Second, there’s no such thing as “individual” contributions! All work, all labor—regardless of job or industry—is a collective. The problem here reall

So: stop calling yourself and your coworkers “ICs”. You are a designer, an engineer, a producer. Your contribution deserves more than a moniker that i

“I don't say no because I'm so busy. I say no because I don't want to be busy.” Courtney Carver

Storytelling2
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Follow your passion3
Daniel Wentsch

Instead of following a more conventional path of education, I sought out the thinkers and teachers who were actually interesting to my unmedicated min

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Th

yay, capitalism2
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"Was dem Aktionär gegeben wird, wurde dem Arbeiter zuvor gestohlen." (Friedrich Engels)

Artisanal softwareIn a speech delivered years ago, Ev Williams used agriculture as a metaphor to understand what’s possible on the Internet. Agricultu

Best Practices for Breadcrumb Navigation1
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Each node in the breadcrumb trail should be a link to an ancestor page (with the important exception of the link corresponding to the current page, as

Overengineering vs Web Platform1
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I’d heard rumblings that GitHub’s in the middle of shipping a frontend rewrite in React, and I realized this must be it. The problem wasn’t that the l

Is flow the secret of happiness?2
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children, life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or

Nutritional Supplements3
Daniel Wentsch

Magnesium is a bonafide anti-stress mineral. It helps to balance blood sugar, optimize circulation and blood pressure, relax tense muscles, reduce pai

He is a proponent of magnesium supplementation. Our ability to buffer magnesium with healthy kidneys is very high. He takes 600 to 800 mg per day, alt

HbA1c (usually read as “hemoglobin A1c”): “They say that, basically, you age at the rate you produce insulin. HbA1c will tell me what was the average

Attention, Awareness and Awakening6
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Stable attention is the ability to intentionally direct and sustain the focus of attention, as well as to control the scope of attention. Intentionall

Awakening from our habitual way of perceiving things requires a profound shift in our intuitive understanding of the nature of reality. Awakening is a

The two main objectives of meditation practice are: Developing stable attention Cultivating powerful mindfulness that optimizes the interaction betwee

One of the most important things to learn is how to separate awareness from thinking, and then we can see that thoughts and emotions are not the cente

Ikigai4
Daniel Wentsch

When you have cultivated mindfulness, life becomes richer, more vivid, more satisfying, and you don’t take everything that happens so personally. Atte

Metaphors & Pictures1
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Getting annoyed with every instance of mind-wandering or sleepiness is like tearing up the garden to get rid of the weeds. Attempting to force attenti

Children and Alcohol / Drugs5
Daniel Wentsch

Tatsächlich zeigt die Forschung auch hier ziemlich klar: Nein, Regeln funktionieren. 2017 veröffentlichten Forschende genau zu dieser Frage eine Metaa

Eltern, die ihre Kinder vom exzessiven Trinken abhalten wollen, ohne Streit und Trotz, könnten es am leichtesten so versuchen: In Gegenwart des Nachwu

People who start drinking at a young age (13-15) are more likely to get addicted to alcohol, no matter if their families are alcoholism-prone. Even if

We ensure kids can’t get to poisonous liquids in the house such as turps, draino, Etc. Yet we leave bottles of alcohol around the kitchen. We drink it