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“Having control of your time in a creative job, assuming you’re self-motivated, is the ultimate hack”

Questions I like to ask myself include:-‘What is the most capable version of me that I can imagine?’-‘What would I be like/spend my time doing if all my current major problems had been solved?’-‘What are the things I say I value but don’t act as if I value, and what would my life feel like on inside if I actually acted as if I valued those... See more

Let’s compare: Readers assume content is free. Music became free. Napster wasn’t about making music free as much as it was about user experience and user control. Listeners demanded a better experience and Napster was the catalyst for that. Newsletters, and curation are similar. Out of Napster came streaming. With a new user experience and ability... See more

The truth, which the great novelists reveal, according to Girard, is that our desires are generally inspired by the desires of others. We want things, not because they are inherently desirable, but because someone else’s desire for them has made them attractive to us.

When our brains constantly scan for and focus on the positive, we profit from three of the most important tools available to us: happiness, gratitude, and optimism. The role happiness plays should be obvious—the more you pick up on the positive around you, the better you’ll feel—and we’ve already seen the advantages to performance that brings. The... See more