Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
And if your cravings can't be beaten by mere reasoning, then consider rearranging your lifestyle so junk info is simply not an option. The way I beat intellectual obesity was by trying to become the best writer I can be. Writing requires you to filter out bad information because you have a duty to your readers to not be full of shit. Writing also... See more
Gurwinder • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
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The most disruptive act in midlife isn't leaving your job or relationship—it's leaving behind the version of yourself that you created to survive.
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The most disruptive act in midlife isn't leaving your job or relationship—it's leaving behind the version of yourself that you created to survive.
Women who have the option of being economically self-sustaining will increasingly want your son to also have emotional and relationship intelligence.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website? And if we all stop going to websites, what’s the incentive to put new content on the web? What’s going to stop shady characters from flooding the web with AI-generated spam to try and game these systems? And if we succeed in choking the... See more
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
How will AI impact humanity? and AI will magnify desire for deep human connection
How AI will increase desire for connection.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The Unlived Life: Carl Jung’s Profound Insight into Parental Influence
Fatherhood and Parenting
Carl Jung
Men have become the tools of their tools," Henry David Thoreau warned in 1854; philosophers Marshall McLuhan and John M. Culkin later echoed: "We shape our tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us." Whenever our tools no longer serve our deeper purposes—drawing us instead into a vortex of infinite scrolls and notifications—intention has been... See more
One of the biggest shifts in mindset around inheritance is that most Americans now favor the idea of “giving while living.” Two-thirds say they prefer to distribute part of their estate, 30% on average, while still alive (Figure 5) . That provides both a means of directing the distribution and the opportunity to see the inheritance benefiting the... See more
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management • Leaving a Legacy: A Lasting Gift to Loved Ones
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... See more
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