Michaela Petrova

@michaelapetrova

If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more
from Create things that come alive
basic premise of Tantra is self-acceptance. Another is selflove.
from Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Carrellas
Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.” This kind of knowing is not solely done in the intellect. Data is constantly being fed into your unconscious, then cross referenced against your experience.
from The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.” by thekcpgroup.com
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be
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from Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
Choose Your Reason and Season Wisely

Some entrepreneurs build businesses for a compelling, undeniable, passion-fueled reason regardless of their venture’s timeline. Others hop on a bandwagon or try to master a trend and either sink or swim in one short season. Rather than try to compete with a herd of rats who are already decades ahead of you in an... See more
from The Backwards Hack to Surviving The AI Revolution as an Entrepreneur Isn’t Mastering the New Tech by Rachel Greenberg
Angles that spread usually check the following boxes:

Surprising — presents unexpected new information or theories

True — we actually believe it

Important — has an impact on our behavior

Relevant — related to domains we care about

Cool — we think we’ll look impressive for sharing it
from How to Write Essays That Spread by Nathan Baschez
The term “psychological safety” has been around since at least 1999, when Dr. Amy Edmondson of Harvard University published this influential paper on the subject . In her study, Dr. Edmondson proposed that regardless of its makeup, a team’s success will largely boil down to its members “tacit beliefs about interpersonal interaction,” and whe
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from How Psychological Safety Actually Works by Forbes
There is the kindness of ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ And the kindness of “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” The small kindnesses that smooth our interactions and help other people feel as though you’re aware of them .
from Three types of kindness by Seth Godin
I love the quote from author Kent Nerburn that, “Debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die.
from How I Think About Debt by Morgan Housel

from Create things that come alive

from Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Carrellas

from The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.” by thekcpgroup.com

from Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown

from The Backwards Hack to Surviving The AI Revolution as an Entrepreneur Isn’t Mastering the New Tech by Rachel Greenberg

from How to Write Essays That Spread by Nathan Baschez

from How Psychological Safety Actually Works by Forbes

from Three types of kindness by Seth Godin

from How I Think About Debt by Morgan Housel