Samar S Kamat
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Samar S Kamat
What’s something you were on the wrong side of history on?
Dylan • Questions to Ask Your Friends
The country has more bicycles than people (1.3 bikes to every person), and the Dutch use them for everything .
shortform.com • Culture Curious: Why Do the Dutch Bike Everywhere?
at least 5 minutes of special time with your child at least four times a week and making it part of a daily routine
October 17 • The 5-minute daily playtime ritual that can get your kids to listen better
one ought to be strict about finding that daily hour and protecting it from distractions and interruptions—but that the writing time itself should not have a quality of strictness. Instead, it should feel more like a gift to yourself: an hour in which to tinker, explore, follow things wherever they lead.
Mason Currey • Lynda Barry on Writing Without Thinking
That’s the elegant secret to discipline: valuing your future self as highly as you value your current self, at least long enough to get your Right Now Self to do the right thing. That moment of choice is where the ants go one way and grasshoppers the other.
David Cain • The elegant secret to self-discipline
‘Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.’
The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
Think of it like having a library and a workshop