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Calm the Sunday scaries in 15 min

Open loops cause anxiety.

Here is the fix:

1. list every task for the coming week

2. identify the top 3-5

3. calendar them

The Science:

Your brain has a known bias for unfinished tasks (the Zeigarnik effect). A 2011 study found that the act of making a specific plan is what signals to your brain that these "open loops"... See more

Change is painful and especially unwelcome when there is nothing dire to fix. But what you must realize—and relay to your team—is that proactive changes that feel premature are far better than reactive changes that feel inflicted upon you. As my friend Tim Ferriss once said, “The more voluntary suffering you build into your life, the less involunta

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“You’ve got to be really good to last. You really do. You’re not going to get by just on being popular. So I’m really just trying to learn and get better. Being rich is not about having a lot of money. Being rich is about having lots of options.”

Rock

I love being a power broker of interesting people and ideas.

When we tie ourselves to external signals like memetic ideologies, metric maxxing, and the pump-and-dump lifestyle, this is especially the case. But when we’re anchored to an internal compass and loyal relationships, the world’s movements feel more like gusts of wind we can brace for, help protect others, and even appreciate.

Fulfilling that goal is... See more

Our beliefs are not born in a vacuum. We’re a mixture of our surroundings and some deeper essence. We wish to change the world, but even more rapidly the world changes us. Before we know it we can find ourselves unmoored from what we believed and knew.

This vice-like pressure is a microcosm of the wider condition of contemporary life. Produce or perish. Perform or be replaced. Maybe even get replaced anyway. Hence: scam or be scammed.