Leo Guinan

I gave this pitch today and one of the people said this was the slide they had to screenshot because they're now thinking about win-win-win and how we can do that more fuck yeah man it's spreading https://t.co/MSVRahrNiy

“The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too.” - Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

So if you have large-scale bureaucracies that need to be organized and function coherently, then you need these kind of simple, nuance-free packets of information. And I think that’s one of the reasons we’ve seen this constant rise of simplified metrical analysis.

The fact is, brand-centric content is optimized for driving revenue, not for the quality of original content.

scarce systems do what is most likely to succeed right now, because tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. Abundant systems assume that tomorrow will be there, so it’s ok to focus on longer term goals.

Confidence is a necessary ingredient for success in any area of life. So is humility, but if you’re not careful, humility can morph into a kind of imposter syndrome that stops you in your tracks.

This illustrates the earlier point about attention: if a stimulant greatly enhances focus on a particular activity to the exclusion of clock-watching, the person might underestimate time (time seems to fly) despite the physiological tendency of the drug to speed the clock

Friendship is a bulwark against stasis, a potential source of creativity and renewal.Practically everyone who studies friendship says this in some form or another: What makes friendship so fragile is also exactly what makes it so special. You have to continually opt in. That you choose it is what gives it its value.