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Shane Snow • Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
The finished piece would stretch to more than thirty thousand words and be divided into two parts, to appear in two consecutive issues of the magazine. It’s a marvel of long-form reporting and one of the more beloved entries in McPhee’s long bibliography. It couldn’t have existed, however, without McPhee’s willingness to put everything else on hold
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
There are few generators of positive civic energy that can match that of a brand-new ballpark in the center of town. That’s why so many of those cities sink hopeful millions of dollars into building stadiums, collective fingers crossed that it might lure a baseball team. When it does, that ballpark becomes a true community hub. There is a renewed u
... See moreRyan McGee • Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time
“One lucky break, or one supremely shrewd decision—can we tell them apart?” Not easily.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes
In my head, I imagine that when I’m dead, when I can no longer defend my records or explain them, the periodicals will stay forever, like they did in the reading room at the Philadelphia Main Library, and those reviews will become the final word on the things that I’ve created.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Two years in, the mainstream critiques of Johnson’s health regimen remain the same, simple and amusing. It’s either that he’s too rich or too exacting in his lifestyle for any regular person to emulate and/or that he’s doing so much to his body in an... See more
Bryan Johnson and the Birth of the Blueprint Religion
He was someone with something special to offer. He was the answer to their prayers, not the other way around. That was what he began projecting in his auditions—not exclusively his acting skills but that he was the man for the job. That he understood what the casting director and producers were looking for in a specific role and that he would deliv
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