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I noticed this after spotting my favorite bloggers—including Paul Graham, Angela Jiang, and Derek Sivers—post erratically whereas the writers I often regret reading publish as much as they can.)
Julian Shapiro • Highlights: Three New Books 🍌
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Comparing up versus comparing down: Your happiness depends on where you’re focusing. The metaphor is easy to understand, but hard to remember in regular life. If you catch yourself burning with envy or resentment, think like the bronze medalist, not the silver. Change your focus. Instead of comparing up to the next-higher situation, compare down to
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read this when the mind is loud
Compare down vs up
Eventually we’ll have machines that can dream. But there’ll always still be the hard, dumb, bottleneck that is human effort. You shape what you make and it shapes you right back. When you get stuck nothing is going to help you get unstuck except sheer stubbornness and self-driven motion. That’s the most rewarding part though: if you expend enough e... See more
momentum
Decisions are easy, choices are hard.
A good decision is our best analysis of the facts, options and risks. If it's too close to call, flip a coin, because it's too close to call.
On the other hand, a choice involves understanding our priorities, evaluating our preference for risk and sometimes, changing our minds. None of these are easy.
If we face a
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Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
Paul Graham • What You'll Wish You'd Known
part of my joy in learning is that it puts me in a position to teach; nothing, however outstanding and however helpful, will ever give me any pleasure if the knowledge is to be for my benefit alone.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
This is how I feel when i really believe in an idea or something meaningful. I want to share it
When you’re gone, your work shows who you were. Not your intentions. Not what you took in. Only what you put out.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Would my work help Nirvaan? That's the filter
Whenever you can center a story around people, do it. People Magazine is the world’s most popular magazine for a reason: people want to hear about people
David Perell • 31 Ways to Improve Your Writing
Centre stories around people. Writing tip
Man feels inferior because he lives from the standpoint of his personality.
Kapil Gupta • A Master's Secret Whispers
#epiphany