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People who get an unusual amount of work done are maniacal about removing things from their lives that others tolerate. *** Guarding your time isn't
What gives me some comfort is that the thing DD has always been trying to do – slow down, look carefully, resist the pull of the obvious – feels more
Improving your life does not remove your problems. It simply exchanges them for better problems.
“One reason the best in the world make consistently good decisions is they rarely find themselves forced into a decision by circumstances.”
The entire self-help industry in one sentence: Do what makes mornings exciting and nights peaceful. Will this make me excited to wake up? Will this l
Improving your life does not remove your problems. It simply exchanges them for better problems.
“Your best work will sit at the intersection of fun and challenge and it’s important to try and design your life to spend as much time there as possib
the ideas already exist the person who surfaces them at the right moment in the right context with a freshly curated set of words and shapes earns the
People treat talent as something people bring to a field rather than something earned through the dark hours. I call them "dark hours" because no one
Charlie Munger on staying sane in an ideological world: “I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift towar
Smart people are uniquely vulnerable to mistaking complexity for insight. An executive writes a ten-page memo that could be one. An engineer builds a
What gives me some comfort is that the thing DD has always been trying to do – slow down, look carefully, resist the pull of the obvious – feels more
Charlie Munger on staying sane in an ideological world: “I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift towar
You can get the answer without effort, but you can't get the understanding.
I need to send a post-meeting follow-up email to a client. Here are my rough notes, the decisions we made, and two risks we need to flag. Draft the em
Using the draft already in this doc, write the next two sections in the same voice. Keep the tone consistent with the existing text, preserve existing
"strive to make my writing unsummarizable, in the sense that it has so little fluff left in it that if you take any words out, as summaries by definit
If your aspirations are outgrowing your net worth, that’s when people get into trouble. If your net worth grows 10%, but your expectations grow 12%, t
Wealth is what you don’t see. It’s the cars not purchased, the clothes not bought, the jewelry not worn. Wealth is hidden.
We protect money because it's visible and throw away time because it's not. If you burn money, people call you crazy. If you burn time, they call you
I have a theory about nostalgia: It happens because the best survival strategy in an uncertain world is to overworry. When you look back, you forget a
"You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns."
We protect money because it's visible and throw away time because it's not. If you burn money, people call you crazy. If you burn time, they call you
Pressure feels like a threat, but it's not. You feel pressure when your decisions matter, and people depend on you. It can feel uncomfortable at time
I once told my wife I was going out to buy an envelope: “Oh,” she said, “well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hun
Does the world happen to you, or do you happen to the world? Most people wait for permission to solve problems. The subtle message they send is "I do
Results tend to accumulate to the person who enjoys the lifestyle that precedes the result.
Reliability is magnetic because humans are hardwired to avoid risk, so once you prove yourself trustworthy and reliable, you become the default choice
Sublime is not : Sublime is not another note-taking tool to add your grocery list or to store your kids health insurance info – the ideas that mo
The AI Branding Wars Have Begun AI models are getting better — all of them. The gap between the top and 10th-best has been cut in half in a year, and
Most businesses wait for the transaction before the service. Consistently going positive and going first is the most powerful force in the universe.
Napoleon on details being the key to succcess: “The pursuit of detail is the religion of success.” ** Jack Dorsey on identifying the right details:
Author Nassim Taleb on why earned knowledge and being in the details is superior: “The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience
Extended Mind The Extended Mind is a theory in cognitive science that argues our thinking isn’t limited to the brain alone—it extends into our bodies
Astronaut Scott Kelly on smart: “The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of e
Co-authors Rosamund and Benjamin Zander, on finding the right frame: “Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life,