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Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else.

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Henry David Thoreau

There is no tragedy in having to start again, as long as you start again. - Albert Camus

“Soon anybody will be able to make anything they want.” Well they already can do that and they don’t.

increasingly convinced the work of a truly great editor or writing teacher is to keep asking “why do you care?” until you reach the live wire under th

During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for medi

Whenever we design an interface that requires high learnability, we always look at computer games for inspiration. Game designers are extremely good a

"A creative life is a life where you routinely choose the path of curiosity over the path of fear. Not twice or three times, but daily. Systematical

When we are trying to understand a new way of seeing the world, it is hard for anyone else to pinpoint what we need to know to get it.

This is what I call the “curiosity conflict”: the phenomenon where your greatest asset for creativity—your curiosity—can get in the way of your produc

one problem we have with our collective concept of intelligence is that many people have not been taught to discern the difference between thinking (p

A helpful prompt when using AI: Do not simply affirm my statements or assume my conclusions are correct. Your goal is to be an intellectual sparring p

Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same

Knowledge is best applied through execution, which means whatever doesn’t help you make progress on your projects is probably detracting from them.

Personally, I suck at efficiency (doing things quickly). Here’s my coping mechanism and process for maximizing efficacy (doing the right things): 1)

V3 | Systems | Bottlenecks Bottlenecks are the choke points, the narrow parts of the hourglass where everything slows down. They’re the constraints

In a real sense, these are eight things that are better than free in the eyes of the creator. Eight uncopyable values. I call these values “generative

I want a way of stoking the fire, and not just that — a way of devoting myself to the fire, of courting it and nurturing it, and of teaching it how to

Knowledge is best applied through execution, which means whatever doesn’t help you make progress on your projects is probably detracting from them.

are you climbing a mountain for the world to see you or for you to see the world?

“We have no chance of knowing whether we understand something until we test ourselves in some form. If we don’t try to verify our understanding during

The friction between having an idea and seeing it realised used to be enormous. Weeks, months of wrestling something into form. That felt like a limit

“The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not

My summary: 1) don't decide what external outcomes you want, decide what kind of thing you want to spend your time doing—e.g. "I want to paint" not "I

very difficult sometimes to distinguish between "is this a hard thing I'm supposed to work through" or "is it hard because it's the wrong thing and I

Unhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.

During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for medi

TED’S 24 RULES FOR READINGReading shouldn’t be a goal—instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit.It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, someth

Psychologically, the notebooks get at the intent of a planner, without the terror. I’ve used the internet’s reigning favorite Japanese planner, the Ho

“I guarantee you that at some point everything is going to go south on you. You're going to say this is it, this is how I end. Now you can either acce

After my accident, one lesson arrived with unusual force. When circumstances are genuinely bad, survival does not come from pretending everything is f

Some of you may have heard me talk about the advice I was given: live every day as if it’s your last. I understand the spirit of it, but in practice,

Yes > Prestige is a brain worm, and its shape changes all the time. Keep your identity small, and don’t fear starting over. The people who will win

Certainty in some aspects of your life makes it easier to hold onto uncertainty in others. In your personal life, perhaps your anchors are a commitmen

Chesky knew the pandemic would be a period of unprecedented uncertainty for the company. So one of the first things he did was create a list of six gu

Meredith got a giant piece of butcher paper and rolled it out over the long boardroom table. One by one she made a list of everything that needed to b

Almost every writer changes my mind – that is the point of reading.