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“The reason I started my podcast was that I was frustrated by how imprecise even the best book on a topic was, as it related to my specific questions and curiosities. When I went to the world's best expert on whatever, I got exactly what I wanted quickly, with higher impact. I think if you wanted to learn about anything in the world, you'd be far... See more
Frederik Gieschen • A Compulsive Search for the Most Interesting People with Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Compound Manual
Notes and ideas from the David Senra (@davidsenra) Podcast with Daniel Ek (@eldsjal):
1. Optimise for impact over happiness. Happiness is a trailing indicator of impact. Define what impact is for you.
2. Greatest joys come from overcoming the greatest adversities. For Daniel, it is solving a... See more
Bhargav Chaudharix.com
The Lincoln Protocol: Achieving success by embracing necessary hard work and avoiding the trap of modern productivity shortcuts.
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The final pitfall is avoiding doing the actual hard work required. For most of the things that Lincoln went after, it was reading hard books that mattered. Those books were hard, and he would just do the work to learn them. If you don't do the equivalent hard work for the useful projects that you choose, you're not going to make progress. if
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The value and risk of customizing productivity tools, and the importance of focusing on output over tooling.
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There's a critical threshold there where if you can stay in flow and change something then it becomes worth doing and that's i think a huge like a person in a workshop who might modify a tool while they're building something absolutely and you know woodworkers i'm not a woodworker but i've talked to woodworkers about they call them jigs you can
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@tferriss with Josh Waitzkin & @EricRWeinstein
@eriktorenberg with @danielgross
@farnamstreet with @naval, @rorysutherland & @tobi
@david_perell with @wolfejosh... See more
George Mackx.com
Books and articles mentioned or relevant to this conversation:
Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel by Sam Zell
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing,... See more
Tim Ferrissx.comHarish Natarajan