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Your success here will depend entirely on how successfully you can tell stories, and how successfully other people can repeat those stories, both to t

Things that are most fulfilling are hard to start, easy to quit. Things that are least fulfilling are easy to start, hard to quit. Every. Single. Tim

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is beca

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. – Michael J. Fox

But what if your purpose is simply to build a good life? To raise kind children. To cook a little better each year. To read a few excellent books. To

the good life, the life without the pressure of time. A life we could lead together, even if we had to sell apples along the road.

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is beca

I’ve come to realize that these mass-market feeds, driven by algorithms, erode the quality of my attention. And attention—what I focus on, what I give

I see more and more people quietly stepping back—not out of cynicism, but out of a desire for something richer, something more authentic and expressiv

What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am ca

“A developed country is not one where the poor own cars, but one where the rich use public transportation.” — Gustavo Pedro

At work the junior engineer sends you some code to review. The code was clearly written in a first draft, and then just iteratively patched until the

It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Some

I know how to handle a day when you feel extremely lazy. Decide that, given that you’re a lazy person, you will work diligently for only 30 entirely f

His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.

“How we perceive our world is determined by the distinctions we make. Instead of separating work from life, it would make more sense to distinguish re

A man’s wealth is a measure, not of his worth, but of his generosity.

Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activitie

if your significant other asks you to do an irritating-for-them task that is not especially difficult, you should be thankful. They have given you an

I know that if you have a serious dispute with someone, it will go nowhere unless you clearly name the underlying emotion that you’re struggling with.

I know that almost nobody hears too many sincere compliments. Compliment them to their face. Then, compliment them behind their back. Practice naming

Maturity is realizing that you are not supposed to be for everyone. You are not the center of everyone’s universe. At the same time, you are the creat

It is okay to say, I do not prioritize that right now

I know that freedom is earned by confronting things that embarrass and trigger you, over and over again, until you are cringe-proof in your desired en

Introduced to a party of people who ignore their own chauffeur, he protests: “I have not met this gentleman

Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods: "You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any

I know that environmental influence is the most effective form of behavioral control. Accordingly, if you want radical change, radically change your e

Without spaces that cultivate belonging and a shared sense of purpose, why do we expect anything other than high rates of loneliness, polarization, an

The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online

Instead, good communities like this are decentralized networks of many micro-communities, where there are a few superconnectors that form the fast, ef

Your customers are going to join your community because of benefits, not belonging. Belonging comes after someone has been a part of a community and f

digital mindfulness exercise listen to the way you feel in your body while using the internet. how each website either makes you expand or contr

Many of us yearn for a way to be fully online without all of the mindlessness, passivity and addiction that often entraps us. Some of us oscillate bet

Making internet hang out spaces shouldn't require scribes or high priests — & it definitely shouldn't req. mathematical prowess and/or a seed roun