Laurence Chen
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Drive your dopamine dream; don’t be driven. Steer now. –Laurence Chen
If you do everything I ask, you get a C.
If you want a better grade, do more.
–Hilary’s Teacher
Ask–Loop–Learn and
Scott Adams, James Clear
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. – Seneca
“A tiny acorn grows into a magnificent oak tree, and it never goes: ‘I have to improve myself.’”
Discover, not improve
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
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Your success as a leader is how much good people do thanks to your presence. Your legacy as a leader is how much good people keep doing in your absence. –Adam Grant
The greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of games is that you can get sucked into this experience of just craving and wanting to be in a clear, crisp and gentle universe where you know exactly what to do and exactly how well it’s measured.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
The game dialectic is electric!