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it's actually quite easy for a low-value work to unnoticeably creep into your schedule and it actually takes a lot of work and effort to not let this happen...So here's an experiment. Try journaling in great detail of each day in the past week every single hour. So hour by hour, what is it that you're exactly doing and be honest on what you thought... See more

While members of a community may be willing to give up certain rights or freedoms to belong to something larger than themselves (and reap benefits as a result), members of a collective are much more intensely focused on the affordances of a particular institution (qua collective) and are highly resistant to any loss of agency or freedom

What distinguishes the talented person who makes it from the person who has even more talent but doesn’t get ahead? Look at the aspiring actors waiting tables in New York, as an example: Many of them are probably no less gifted than stars like Robert DeNiro and Susan Sarandon. Part of what constitutes success is timing and chance. But most of us... See more

It has some psychological ground, too: according to Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, we tend to want things simply because other people want them. Human desire is not an autonomous process but a collective one — this is how we decide what we care about.

-The primary new capability is the ability to write code that allows you to make commitments about how a system will behave in the future

What’s striking about older Americans is the disconnect between their financial muscle and the number of products and services targeting them.