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The only way to find truth in a firehosed-world that is teeming with misinformation is to become acclimated to a world that is filled with lies. We will stop trusting what we see when we are exposed to lies so often, and this will force us to seek out the truth.

my first workshop on how I build my library

Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b

Rory Sutherland on Lenny’s Podcast:

• Products like Meta Portal TV, Google Glass, Japanese toilets, and wine boxes were amazing products but something about the timing or the marketing was wrong and the consumer never bit

• Rory on Japanese toilets: “I think it’s barbaric that the Western Hemisphere dry wipes.”

• The reason most people adopt new technology

"We choose to build a second brain because it lets us garden our thinking over days, months, and years. Where social media is compulsive, tools for thought are reflective. Where social media is here and now, tools for thought dwell in the long now. Tools for thought slowly build compounding momentum through low, slow feedback loops that point us in

“Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself. But each map was incomplete, and I would only locate the treasure if I read all the books, and so the process of finding my best self was an endless quest. And books themselves seemed to reflect thi