Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
Ultimately you'll have to determine the info-diet that works for you. But if you insist on endlessly consuming whatever the web serves you, know that this banquet culminates in a bitter dessert: at the end of your life, when you're weighing your regrets, you probably won’t say “Man, I wish I’d spent more time browsing the web.” On the contrary,... See more
Gurwinder • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
Perhaps the most important insight is this: when we criticize our technology, we’re really criticizing ourselves. And when we try to imagine better systems, we’re really trying to imagine better ways of being human.
Joan Westenberg • The Original Sin of Everything
Don’t play it safe, in your imaginings. Write a list of things you long for, that don’t include any kind of romantic entanglement, and then go after them with all of the caution and trepidation of a comet.
Catherine Gray • The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
The easiest strong emotion to evoke is outrage; it requires nothing more sophisticated than a simple story of oppression, tailored to the appropriate political tribe. And yet outrage, for all its cheapness, is highly addictive and highly contagious, making it the weapon of choice for anyone who wants to be noticed in the online cacophony. Even... See more
Gurwinder • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
In Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, the profoundly human (i.e., imperfect) teacher, Hector, reminds his students that “The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met,... See more
Passing away without affairs in order can not only leave disarray for family and heirs but also diminish one’s personal legacy. Our survey respondents see someone who dies without having affairs in order as irresponsible (52%), inconsiderate or ignorant (Figure 10) . Yet having affairs in order is still the exception, not the rule. Leaving a... See more
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management • Leaving a Legacy: A Lasting Gift to Loved Ones
We want him to be assertive, but not aggressive; to be empathetic, but not naive; to be “a doer,” but also introspective; to be perseverant, but not stubborn; to be prepared, but not obsessive; to help people, but not enable them . . .
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Thats a lot to straddle!
As Paul Graham said in his essay “Do Things That Don’t Scale”: A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don’t. You build something, make it available, and if you’ve made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don’t, in which case the market must not exist. Actually startups take off... See more
Gabriel Weinberg • Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Dads and moms both love their children deeply, but differently.