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“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
You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.
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
The value of you as a knowledge worker or someone who wants to be a better person is the delta between what an AI can infer and what you carefully cur
LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest.
Current AI custom prompt: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and
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
Disney once said, "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new path
“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.”— Walt Whitman
"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.
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
“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.”— Walt Whitman
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
"Just doing something once today, just steering your kayak over the next few inches of water, is the only way you’ll ever become the kind of person wh
Martha said to me, very quietly: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because t
"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
You’d go in looking for one thing and leave with something else entirely. Something you didn’t know existed, let alone wanted, because it was sitting
The question is no longer whether you can produce something. The question is whether you have something that needs producing.
The lane changes.The pool remains.This is the work of Narrative Worth.Recognizing what you actually own.Not the lane where you learned it.But the capa
There is a filmmaker that worked for Pixar that put this beautifully, and he used the metaphor of doing anything difficult, but for your high purposes
The ultimate competitive advantage is loving what you do. In the long run, it’s hard to beat someone who loves the game.
“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward…Those who are motivated only by
The sixth chapter covers people who have mastered something on such a high level—usually music, the arts, or science—that it’s inside of them. It’s a
The intrinsic founder thinks like a craftsperson; their business is a container for their practice – a vehicle for an ongoing journey of meaning and
The PLAN Framework—Tom Ross Having helped hundreds of community builders over the years, and actively supporting many wonderful 1:1 clients, it became
Robin Dunbar's research on social group sizes tells us that humans maintain relationships in rough layers: about five intimate relationships, fifteen
“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
