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Why Goal Setting Is Broken
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
We can already see a backlash brewing on TikTok, accelerating by Meta rolling back moderation and by the TikTok ban being viewed as Zuckerberg puppeteering. Ti... See more
25 Predictions for 2025 (Part II)
I don’t mean to deny the mouth-watering temptation of a fresh, juicy burger. Rather, my point’s about the stubborn reality of creating value: the $27 gap between the $3 or less the average American pays and the $30 or so a burger actually costs is economic harm that is done by industrial era food producers to people, communities, society, the natur
... See moreUmair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
I’d suggest that today we stand on the vertiginous cusp of an equally dizzying transformation in our understanding of prosperity’s place in the human universe: that an economy isn’t an end in itself, but that it’s a means to the end of a good life. That life isn’t a means to the end of wealth, but that wealth is a means to the end of a good
Umair Haque • Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)
began to think again about something that James Williams wrote: “I used to think there were no great political struggles left…. How wrong I was. The liberation of human attention may be the defining moral and political struggle of our time. Its success is the prerequisite for the success of virtually all other struggles.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
So much genius and money has gone into a metaphor that assumes the zenith of humans desire to be status and likes and influence and conven- ience and efficiency. Humans want all those things. But we also want to be inspired. To be delighted. To express our deepest desires. To seek truth. To be moved. To create. To be challenged.
