Lillian Sheng
@lillian
Lillian Sheng
PART I - GOAL SETTING Y ou should set your goals so that you achieve them 85.13% of the time.
every.to • The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Goals
Newspaper reporters call this a “morgue file”—I like that name even better. Your morgue file is where you keep the dead things that you’ll later reanimate in your work.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon
The trick is to find a day job that pays decently, doesn’t make you want to vomit, and leaves you with enough energy to make things in your spare time. Good day jobs aren’t necessarily easy to find, but they’re out there.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon
- SaaS TAM = 5% of vertical sales. On average, companies spend 5% of their sales on technologies. It means that a vertical SaaS with an-in-one platform can charge up to 5% of the revenues generated by its customers.
Alexandre Dewez • 🍻 Toast - The Ultimate Vertical SaaS For Restaurants
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the late Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, the author Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch 22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . .... See more
John C. Bogle • "Enough"
When asked about treasury management tools, only a small handful of our respondents mentioned using Gnosis Safe multisig wallets, which allow DAOs to support treasury security by requiring multiple signers for treasury transactions and are common amongst investment DAOs. Only two DAOs in our study have used Snapshot to carry out community votes... See more
The state of music DAOs - Water & Music
Hypothesis 3: The "innovation as mining" hypothesisThe "innovation as mining" hypothesis says that ideas naturally get harder to find over time, in both science and art. So we should expect that it takes more and more effort over time to maintain the same rate of innovation.
Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?
Basal Ganglia - One job is to generate “GO” actions: Get out of bed. Go for a run. Say hello to the cute stranger. Start writing. Go, do, act. Job #2 is about “NO GO.” Most goals also require you to NOT do certain things—to resist or suppress action. Stop eating the cookies. Do not open TikTok. Resist calling your colleague a moron.
every.to • The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Goals
On the other hand, this type of environment also means that some people will make a lot of money by buying early and selling before the whole thing collapses. In China, the biggest winner from the real estate frenzy was the local government, the original owner of the land. Online, the same outcome is quite likely: The companies selling these plots... See more