Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
Sometimes, I notice this when working with people who have spent time in organizations with poor feedback cultures. They have been taught that it’s so bad to name problems that they focus on resolving acute issues while keeping the peace, all the while navigating an invisible psychological obstacle course. Over time, they become trapped in people-p... See more
Atman Chaser and
The best way to learn is the opposite of what we're taught.
You don't learn everything, then start. You start, then learn why it did or didn't work. You start with minimum viable knowledge, then experiment, then succeed or fail, then study to understand why.
People dumber than you tend to run circles around you because of this. They aren't paraly... See more
DAN KOEsubstack.comI think we are moving away from the era of social media and into an era of online micro-communities. More intentional, less chaos. Smaller, but more valuable. More boundaries, more containment.
We were never made to read the unhinged thoughts of hundreds of strangers each day, but we were made to gather around fires with groups and share our stor... See more
Laura Matsue Guenthersubstack.comMost people quit because they don't realize that 2-3 months of feeling like you have no idea what you're doing is a feature not a bug.
DAN KOEsubstack.comThe Trick to Becoming Who You Want to Be
youtube.comIf someone seems boring to you, or a bad fit, it might be that you don’t know how to prompt them, that you haven’t seen them react to the context that brings out their full being. You probably don’t know how much beauty lies hidden in the people around you
friendship and
The third and deepest kinds of friendship, according to Aristotle, are friendships of virtue. That is, you like a person because of their character. They might be fun, they might be useful, but even if they aren’t, you like them anyway. It is what the marriage vows are getting at with the line: “To have and to hold, from this day forward, for bette... See more
Community and
There are three types of friendship, Aristotle says. The first one is based on pleasure—the way our relationship in high school was all about laughing, or the way you can date someone because they are hot and make you feel good. The second is based on utility—you’re friends because it is useful, because your friend plays drums and you need a drumme... See more
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