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[2:11] I keep in mind that I'm going to have less energy throughout the day and things are going to get more and more tempting throughout the day, so it's going to be much harder for me to resist things as the day progresses. Keeping these two things in mind, every single day of my week from a macro standpoint gets divided into three main parts.
Elizabeth Filips • How I Consistently Study with a Full Time Job: My Scheduling Formula
It’s not expensive in terms of dollars, I think it’s expensive in terms of opportunity cost, or attention.
Ben Gilbert • Writely (Google Docs) | Acquired Podcast
There are two necessary and sufficient conditions for power. There's a benefit. You've got to come up with something that's better than what other competitors do, but better for you as a business model.
David Rosenthal • 7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer | Acquired Podcast
When done well, both giving and taking create what psychologists call affordances: features of the environment that allow you to do something. Physical affordances are things like stairs and handles and benches. Conversational affordances are things like digressions and confessions and bold claims that beg for a rejoinder. What matters most, then, ... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
This is the Uffington White Horse and it is somewhere around 3,000 years old. It was carved into this hill in Oxfordshire before the British isles had written history, so we have no idea who made it, or why. And until humanity invented aircraft millennia later, no one could even really see it properly.
Tom Scott • I hit 3,000-year-old art with a hammer
YouTube | Acquired Podcast
acquired.fm…this is one of the most classic examples ever of low-end disruption. You have the big thing that the enterprise people are buying with these companies that need every single last feature of Office, even though any given person only uses 5% of it. Most of them use the same 5%, but you need all those features because that's how you get the big enter... See more
Ben Gilbert • Writely (Google Docs) | Acquired Podcast
A counter positioning occurs if a company comes up with a new business model and challenges often a powerful incumbent with it. But for the incumbent to mimic this model, they would incur (or at least think they would incur) so much immediate financial damage that they just say, I can't go there.They're very cognitively biased towards thinking that... See more
David Rosenthal • 7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer | Acquired Podcast
How I Consistently Study with a Full Time Job: My Scheduling Formula
youtube.comProductivity and
We're smashing the chalk into the figure of the Horse today to preserve its appearance and keep its longevity as people have done for the last 3,000 years, otherwise it wouldn't be here.