nicole

[6:54] work expands to fill the time that you allocate to it... So what this basically means is if I say that I'm going to write my essay in three weeks or I'm going to write my essay in five months, or I'm going to write my essay in three days, very often, the quality of the work is not going to be too different in these three different forms, so ... See more

[10:36] ...good nature is the result of ease and security, not a life of arduous struggle. So, some struggle cannot be avoided, but the struggles that we can avoid and this self-imposed kind of work that we need to do, might actually be affecting us negatively in the long term.

With intrinsic motivation, we do things because they are inherently interesting and satisfying. With extrinsic motivation, we do things to earn rewards and achieve external goals. That's the problem with rewards, they massively undermine intrinsic motivation. That's why gamification does not work, and when gamification does work, it is because the ... See more

…if somebody is several years ahead of you, and it's one of the middle phase types of power, which is most common in tech—network, economy scale, economy switching costs; those are the three most common ones—then your size matters. If they're ahead of you, when push comes to shove, when the market settles down, you will not be in a good position.

It’s not expensive in terms of dollars, I think it’s expensive in terms of opportunity cost, or attention.