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If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people. And I think some suffering, maybe even intense suffering, is a necessary ingredient for life, certainly for developing compassion.
Dalai Lama • The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
The closer technology brings us to the cusp of feeling like we are the gods of our time, the more incredibly offensive it seems to be reminded of all the ways in which we still aren’t. So you get this utterly bizarre situation where the world speeds up and gets more and more efficient, and we have all this technology for saving time, but it doesn’
... See moreKrista Tippett • Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals
A common trigger of founder burnout is finding yourself working on things that you hate.
Elad Gil • The role of the CEO: managing yourself – High Growth Handbook
The hope is that one day blockchain-based social media and community tools can create a portable resume or data set that will allow one to take one’s curiosity and obsession data from platform to platform; for now though, creating holistic cross-platform portraits of experts is key. Allowing active discourse participants / future experts to share t... See more
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
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I mention all that as a preface to the second thing that should be said about Elon Musk, which is that his talents–impressive as they are—are not at all suited to solve Twitter’s problems.
Steven Johnson • Solving For Twitter
I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
Emmett Shear • Tweet
Social media is content (text, photos, videos, audio, etc) that is distributed primarily through networks of connected people. This means that some level of distribution is guaranteed for creators based on the creator’s social network of friends or followers. This dynamic puts an enormous amount of power in the hands of creators because it means th... See more