Lillian Sheng

Rather than framing serving society as a sacrifice, this framework shows how acting toward a greater good is a key element to finding purpose. Ikigai changes the question from a binary about sacrifice, to a choice about how much weight to give the needs of your nation.

Company towns 1880s to 1935 In some situations, company towns developed out of a paternalistic effort to create a utopian worker’s village. Churches, schools, libraries, and other amenities were constructed in order to encourage healthy communities and productive workers. Saloons or other places or services believed to be negative influences w... See more

To ensure that level of accountability, Magic Eden has a comprehensive screening process for new hires. Before every new person joins, they do a one-week work trial at the company, during which they’re onboarded and work alongside the rest of the team. This approach has been successful—the team is now over 100 people.

Despite its well-known effectiveness, tutoring’s modern incarnation almost universally concerns specific tests: in America the Advanced Placements (AP) tests, the SATs, and the GREs form the holy trinity of private tutoring. Meaning that contemporary tutoring, the most effective method of education, is overwhelmingly targeted at a small set of meas... See more

We call this a double bind. It’s often caused by a misalignment — where what’s good for a critical value chain participant, like a distribution channel, isn’t good for customers. 

So if URLs are like land, and dense networks are like city-states, then what form of governance is appropriate? Probably not the autocracies we live with today. Most people probably want rulers to be bound by law, enforced by an impartial judiciary, and shaped by democratic legislative principles.

But being productive and being organized are not always the same thing. The trap with organizing is that it can sometimes be an excuse not to ship things.

Rigid stories about others often come up in interpersonal conflict. When we get stuck in judgments that another person is "irrational" or "misinformed," we lose touch with who they are as whole, complex human beings.