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“It’s harder to imagine how something might go well than go badly,” he says. But we do not need to passively accept our fate as if we have no control

/// 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

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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

2026 Finished Books: Katabasis, RF Kuang There is no Antimemetics Division, QNTM The Dispossessed, Ursula k le Guin Origins, Dan Brown What You are Lo

Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that

The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with—rather than in competition with—the world

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tomatoes stuffed with rice, tuna and anchovy

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 bill

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

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cognitive velocity. It was necessary, I concluded, to improve my sample efficiency.I define intelligence, loosely, as sensemaking from the observation