Kojo
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Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
Joan Didion • Blue Nights
if we are truly to appreciate what non-human intelligence might consist of – and thus transform our understanding of our own abilities and those of others – we need to stop thinking about intelligence as something defined by human experience. Instead, we must from the outset think about intelligence as something more-than-human.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Seneca highlights the importance of “digesting” our reading so that we can make it our own.
So it is with the food which nourishes our higher nature, – we should see to it that whatever we have absorbed should not be allowed to remain unchanged, or it will be no part of us. We must digest it; otherwise it will merely enter the memory and not the... See more
3 of Seneca's Metaphors for Taking Notes
A few years ago, drowning in email, I successfully implemented the system known as Inbox Zero, but I soon discovered that when you get tremendously efficient at answering email, all that happens is that you get much more email. Oliver Burkeman
I think most people are bad interviewers, including me. I’ve missed a bunch, and I think the core reason for that actually isn’t the interview; it’s the interviewees. Interviewees are so good at interviewing. ... I think everyone, including me, overvalues their ability to select talent in the interview process. I see that as overconfidence.
Farnam Street • Your Mental Diet
"Mastery requires lots of practice. But the more you practice something, the more boring and routine it becomes.
Thus, an essential component of mastery is the ability to maintain your enthusiasm. The master continues to find the fundamentals interesting."
Thus, an essential component of mastery is the ability to maintain your enthusiasm. The master continues to find the fundamentals interesting."
3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love
- James Clear
- There are multiple ways to monetize an online audience: subscription plans, conferences, consulting sessions, selling premium content, etc.
Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
We also, I say, ought to copy these bees, and sift whatever we have gathered from a varied course of reading, for such things are better preserved if they are kept separate; then, by applying the supervising care with which our nature has endowed us, – in other words, our natural gifts, – we should so blend those several flavours into one delicious... See more
3 of Seneca's Metaphors for Taking Notes
People don't want you to be perfect. What they want is to feel connected with you.