Laurence Chen
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Generalist
Laurence Chen
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Curate connect organize lead – Seth Godin
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!
Generalists have the advantage of interdisciplinary knowledge, which fosters creativity and a firmer understanding of how the world works. They have a better overall perspective and can generally perform second-order thinking in a wider range of situations than the specialist can.
Shane Parrish • The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled
No, I shan’t let this become “a better Pinterest”.
there’s this struggle in my head. Is the world ending, or is it a nice day and I’m getting coffee? Obviously, it’s not a binary thing, but living this way is sometimes brain-scrambling. It’s not like the constant doom and gloom of Twitter was making me a better climate activist. Instead I’d be paralyzed. Twitter incentivizes you to live in this con... See more
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Yes. Regrettably, it’s also how it’s used; how one filters signal from the taxing noise. Twitter has been positive for a few, much more negative for many more. But a few figured out the compounding formula.
Drive your dopamine dream; don’t be driven. Steer now. –Laurence Chen
Philosofitting and Ask–Loop–Learn
Dr. Jim Loehr
Ask–Loop–Learn and
Scott Adams, James Clear
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi