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KK: Yes. When you’re doing heavy manual labor, a change in position is almost as good as a rest. If you’re writing, you want to be as specific as possible. Instead of saying there’s a flower in the vase, you say a pale rose rests on the lip of a water glass. The more specific and concrete you can get, the better your writing will be. Some investing... See more

But it also means that the most harebrained, craziest, weirdest idea in the world, the most esoteric passion that you have is probably with eight billion people, probably shared by at least a thousand people, if it was a one in a million. The difficulty is in making that connection. Well, how do they hear about you? How do you find them? And that’s... See more

Sam Harris once said, about smoking weed, that everyone he knows who smokes weed would benefit from smoking less, and everyone he knows who doesn’t smoke weed would benefit from smoking more. I feel the same way about the pursuit of self-knowledge. If you’ve never looked within, you should probably start. But if you look within all the time, maybe... See more