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It’s taken me a while to warm up to the idea that thinking is working, and that what is actually work can at first look lazy. I love Naval [Ravikant’s tweet], “Be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar.” More often than not, spending two hours thinking about a problem is a much better use of my time than taking two calls... See more
Sari Azout • Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital
I churned through lots of messaging ideas and was generally gnashing my teeth about this. I ultimately answered the question by coming up with a bunch of weird ideas and split-testing them on our existing website to see which converted. A clear winner emerged from among these: calling ourselves a “tool for thought."
Muse Retrospective
7 Ways Thinking Like a Philosopher Will Make You a Better Leader
Gustavo Razzettithink.fearlessculture.design
Doing is important, but action must be balanced with thinking. Just like Fred and Sue in the introduction-too much activity without thought results in wasted or erroneous actions and bad decisions, and too much thinking without action results in inaction and frustration.
The key to learning and growing, as a company and as a person, is correctly
... See moreL. David Marquet • Leadership Is Language
Reflecting on the nature of thought may not come naturally, but it can be trained with consistent practice. In the same way our muscles don’t bulk up without physical exercise, our minds won’t sharpen up without adequate mental training. Contemplative practices like meditation and prayer contribute to this type of project, but much of it starts by... See more
Lawrence Yeo • The Right Side of Thought - More To That
I propose that educators need to distinguish between cognitive offloading—the externalization of information storage and retrieval—and what I call cogitative offloading—the delegation of active thinking processes to external agents. This distinction isn't academic; it's essential for understanding which aspects of thinking we should preserve... See more
I think, therefore, I know what I know; I offload, therefore, I raise the potential of knowing more (or less)
obsessionally attached, non self-aware mind-wandering with no interrupt mechanisms (Ctrl-Z for you programmers), is bad.
Venkatesh Rao • Make Your Own Rules
Motivation is at least as important as method for the serious thinker, Shockley believed...the essential element for successful work in any field was “the will to think”. This was a phrase he learned from the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi and never forgot. “In these four words,” Shockley wrote later, “[Fermi] distilled the essence of a very... See more
I was thirty years old before I had an actual thought. Everything up till then was either what Buddhists call “monkey-mind” chatter or the reflexive regurgitation of whatever my parents or teachers said, or whatever I saw on the news or read in a book, or heard somebody rap about, hanging around the street corner.