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/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris: Why are we doing this? Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity. What’s the simplest
I think one of the big questions of this decade Is how do you become “post-algorithmic” While remaining economically viable
What is the real cost and benefit of the technology? How likely is the solution to not only work but also be practical enough to disrupt an entire ind
The Cult of Done Manifesto There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it
This is why writing is important. It’s harder to fool yourself that you understand something when you sit down to write about it and it comes out all
Step 1 Pick a topic Step 2 Read and/or discuss with others (a bit) Step 3 Explain and defend my current
In fact, this impatience in dealing with frustration is the primary reason that most people fail to achieve their goals. Unreasonable expectations tim
the function of your professional life is to find the most natural structure that allows you to turn the things you do as naturally as breathing or wa
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 poss
"Don't ignore the problem, but keep it light. Take action with a smile. Adding tension won't solve your troubles faster. Even when the problem is har
If you knew how every complaint you voice trains your brain to hunt for more things to complain about, then you would bite your tongue until it bled b
Fortunately, when you started you were close: we don’t need you to replace us, we need you to help us find each other
The internet—it seemed like such a good idea at the time.
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs y
The famous Anton Ego speech in Ratatouille: In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position of those who offer u
The distance between knowing and becoming haunts our most consequential choices.
Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself. ~ Sylvia Plath
Because what more do we have besides our intentions?
What allows us to invent amazing things is the seeker inside of us searching for truth
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Meditation Practice
The Buddhist idea of Conditionality is known as Pratītyasamutpāda, or Dependent Arising. In other words, nothing exists independently; everything is i
she reminds me that you can be dedicated and still have equanimity, that it is possible to have extremely high standards and still approach things lig
What drew me so desperately to Haraway at twenty, eager to find a way of being in the world that I could commit to, could follow towards something I w
Then came the existentialists—Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir—who picked up where Nietzsche left off. They said, “We’re free now. We get to create ourselve
/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris: Why are we doing this? Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity. What’s the simplest
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the universe, which runs through himself and all things.”—
There's a moment when a person starts fearing the shoddy, half-lived life of indulged anxiety more than the cold millstone of courage, and something i
You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That’s what you fear.
How to build a creative playground Here are 4 tips on how to lock yourself into a cage and have fun: 1. Make variations: Stick with something
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic grav
The more sensitive an instrument, the more useful and expensive it is scientifically, like that is what makes an instrument great is its insane specif
The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human atten
she reminds me that you can be dedicated and still have equanimity, that it is possible to have extremely high standards and still approach things lig
Why So Many of the World’s Oldest Companies Are in Japan
The short-term crowd is always too distracted to notice the long-term crowd slowly compounding. An investor obsessing over daily economic data misses
All you have to do is just be 5% better than everyone else who’s really bad at it. You don’t have to get everything perfect… you just have to be a lit
