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True self-esteem means not caring whether you get an A in the first place. It means recognizing, despite all you’ve been trained to believe, that the grades you get do not define your value as a human being. It means deciding for yourself what constitutes success.
William Deresiewicz • Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Examples today:
Maria Shen • Five New Frontiers for NFTs
You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.
David Whyte • Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
As large platforms get richer off their users’ personal data and time, people are trying to regain control. We spent the last fifteen years working for gig money, likes, retweets, or follows. The platforms gave us reputation or cash, but no ownership, upside, or voice in its evolution.
Packy McCormick • Fairmint & the Democratization of Upside
We’re more likely to die the year we retire than we are during our last year of work.
Dan Buettner • The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
In Paul Graham’s famous essay Cities and Ambition, there’s this idea that some cities are centers for some type of ambition, and when you come to one of those cities, you can feel the message the city is sending to you. For example, the message that you can feel in New York is “You should be richer,” while Berkeley’s is “You should live better,”... See more
詹雨安 Alan Chan • My Vision: A New City
If The Internet Was A Place and making sublime
Sublime’s message: you should slow down and make something wonderful
As a single entrepreneur I had a philosophy of, “ I live to work ” – nothing was more exciting or important than my job. Now with kids it had become, “ I work to live .” I still loved what I did as an entrepreneur but I wasn’t working only for the sheer joy of it, I was also working to provide for my family and a longer term goal of retirement and
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