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“I found a piece you wrote in the footnote of a book that I admire.” In other words, it took effort for us to find each other. And much like an ineffi

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consumption choices force you to develop the habit of self-examination. And when you think about more complex life choices — what kind of personality

Truth and falsehood are not opposites.  The opposite of one truth is often another truth, and the opposite of one falsehood is usually another.   - D

You’re gonna hire someone for Meta to design your app? That world is dead. You’re done.

Where do you think the next great talent is coming from?Baristas, bartenders...people that have stories to tell, people that are doing cool shit. Ther

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The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

The workforce is splitting in two. Tech workers are either amplified by AI or shaken by it, and that divide shapes their feelings about work more than

When you say that the status quo draws people toward more individuated, personality-driven work, what do you think is causing that, both culturally an

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we

Nobody talks enough about what the passive income movement did to the content quality of the entire internet. If you've tried to google "best [anythin

Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that? Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

Finding Meaning in Our Never Enough Culture

“Over years success” - future series name idea celebrating ppl that took years and decades to win

Concerns about population growth are emerging again. A 2020 survey found that 39 percent of youth worldwide are hesitant to have children in the futur

The big cosmic joke is that energetically reaching for things from lack, actually just creates...more of it.

PirateWires JD: Friends, Romans, countrymen, I’m hiring a new writer. Could be you, could be a friend or acquaintance. Please take a look and pass t

for a long time i’ve been trying to figure out the exact kind of role i’m most interested in, and i think part of the difficulty is that it doesn’t fu

“Every group of people who think for a living is going to be sad. Ignorance is bliss. So what’s the opposite?” – Chris Rock

Yes > Prestige is a brain worm, and its shape changes all the time. Keep your identity small, and don’t fear starting over. The people who will win

But the bigger loss of human agency comes from the billions of people that use these apps. These deep learning AIs are designed to maximize the time w

First, no nostalgia! The old world was bad. Those staid institutions and rigid hierarchies are not worth mourning. I went to a grinder high school and

interactive experiences for mindfulness and self-therapy to increase present-moment awareness and awaken creativity

I have always tried to take lots of notes, typically as snapshots of my mental state. What I’m thinking about, what my priorities are, where my attent

A note from Erikc when I asked him how we would approach our first ever social ad campaign: I gave this some thought on my morning run, and here's wha

Don't Surrender to the Machine Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod and iPhone, founder of Nest, partner at Build Collective, interviewed by @lennysan

And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a

Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel

Very often, I will check out three or four or five books on a writer or artist I admire; spend several hours reading, skimming, scanning, printing, an

The value of polish is going to go down and the value of personal charisma and style and weirdness is going to go up.There’s this saying that I was to

5)AUFI: Is there something you wish you could say to the brands of the world, no holds barred? CN: Brands are scared of being interesting. They’ve don

I think about all the effort and energy that goes into finding references and doing research, and I think it’s a lost art form. I started my blog and

increasingly convinced the work of a truly great editor or writing teacher is to keep asking “why do you care?” until you reach the live wire under th

Honestly: I don’t want AI to make me 10x more productive so that I can “crush it” and “stay ahead of everyone else.” I actually just want a calmer,

The whole corruption of aesthetic language is the application of financial jargon to artistic creativity. This is why instead of calling a work of art

“Another word for creativity is courage.” – Henri Matisse

If the media is fragmented, how would you define the fragment that you are inhabiting yourself?It’s interesting. Last week we talked with Flynn McGarr

Could you give me some examples of — I don’t want to say AI-safe or AI-proof — but the types of journalism that are going to be the most robust in the