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You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You'll learn things yo
Instead of waiting for the perfect moment to arise, consider instead that the time you have each day is like having a set amount of money in a bank ac
I see hundreds, actually thousands, of online writing courses popping up on the Internet. Nearly all of them involve some cohort based model that trai
An ego is a beautiful thing to incinerate
It was once entertainment for the inattentive, with simple plots, broad jokes, and a tropical bird interrupting to shout about Froot Loops.
Drafts of this essay were discussed with Johanna Karlsson. The copy edits were done by Esha Rana. Any remaining mistakes are mine.
Sometimes it is rude in the way accurate things are rude.
The study of time is an interdisciplinary field, incorporating physics, psychology, philosophy, and biology to understand its complexities.
Our brain plays a significant role in processing time, using memory and attention to create our sense of time.
Humanity has a remarkable ability to ignore time costs.
your Tolan understands the deeper context – that you're asking for help with biology homework not just because it’s a hard class, but because your dad
After all, you are being launched - though ever since I experienced the process, I’ve wondered why “convocation” is the name for it. “Ejection” would
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She was like that. She loved me recklessly — Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality
Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961) ...I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal,
“You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.”
This is the kind of world we find ourselves in, and it’s not pleasant. Faced with facts this depressing, the question of the economy - or how many of
“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.” — Jeremy Goldberg
Zátopek never wanted to become a runner. When the management at the shoe factory where he was working elected him for a local race, he tried to refuse
Generally, the advice isn’t really the hard part. There’s endless good advice just a click away. The art is in creating the conditions for people t
Self-Handicapping: Avoiding effort because you don’t want to deal with the emotional pain of that effort failing.
‘Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are the prelude to serious ideas.’ — Charles and Ray Eames
How do you choose the doctors, lawyers, plumbers, and car mechanics that you need in your life? You seldom select them on the basis of their technical
How many slices does a pizza have? Most people would say 8. That‘s the typical answer. But it’s not the only one. A normal pie cut gives you 8 slices.
"what i want is to live in a way that suits me" via korean film on the beach at night alone (2017) dir. hong sang-soo
Something Charlie Chaplin said: "Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind b
Zátopek never wanted to become a runner. When the management at the shoe factory where he was working elected him for a local race, he tried to refuse
The Talmud18 offers an imaginary case for your contemplation. Suppose you embarked on a journey across a remote and distant desert in company with an
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe t
To put a value on the digital world by only tallying the money that changes hands is a little like trying to place a value on sex by simply measuring
“God only made a few perfect heads, and the rest lie covered with hair.”
His gift was communicating this vision with infectious enthusiasm while maintaining craft in every detail. He spent hours equally on factory floors an
“Technology catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think. It changes people’s awareness of themselves, of one another, of their relati
The issue is that in order to learn to think critically, problem-solve, understand abstract concepts, reason through novel problems, and evaluate the
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very difficult sometimes to distinguish between "is this a hard thing I'm supposed to work through" or "is it hard because it's the wrong thing and I
Doris Lessing on reading: “There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading on
The way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness — Alain de Bot
The hard work is to shift our default. To imagine that every incident, story or example is actually a metaphor, and only eventually coming to the conc
A sailboat always moves forward. This remarkable fact is due to its asymmetrical shape: it is pointy at the front and flat in the back. This creates r
“Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” —Ibn Battuta
I have very detailed opinions on lots of topics. I sometimes get asked how I do this, which might just be people making fun of me, but I choose to int
An ego is a beautiful thing to incinerate
My problem with social media is not anything new… I show the same disdain for performative actions IRL. I don’t care for the back-and-forth while dec
How to achieve true IRL → URL URL → IRL social connections?
Once we realize that these companies’ apps are essentially glorified TV, we should feel more comfortable ignoring them. There was a time when platform
Known caveat: sometimes the medium is the message. A postcard is noticeably more personal than an email, a phone call conveys more emotion than a text
Every opportunity you have to say something, is an opportunity for play. As I’m learning through my adult life, there’s not much room left for that. I
If you’re selling an apartment to a couple having a baby, get a pack of those protective plastic outlet covers and leave them in a drawer with a littl
my 2yo is having fun trying to put corn in his mom’s coffee and she is having fun thwarting his efforts and I am having fun watching them
This is what people don’t understand about visionaries: They don’t need to predict the future. They learn to snatch it out of the folds of time and we
Most critically, these roles tend to be self-reinforcing. Organizations using fear-based future narratives often develop risk-averse cultures that fur
Build the company you want to work for, that’s how you become an entrepreneur. Write the book you want to read, that’s how you become an author. What
Make friends. It is dangerous to go alone. You heal yourself by helping others. Be kind and serve others. We can do more together than we can do alone
Prioritization Principles at WarpGamechangers vs. Showstoppers vs. DistractionsA Gamechanger is a feature that is novel and has a big impactA Showstop
Pebble Protocol - an efficient extensible protocol that enabled us to switch pretty seamlessly from Bluetooth Classic to BLE.
One major improvement that we’ve made is adding a local speech-to-text (STT) model into the mobile app. Previously, we relied on a cloud service like
Each Pebble ships from the factory with the Pebble Recovery Firmware (PRF) which has 3 uses: a) test functionality in factory before final assembly, b
Appreciation memos Guys love the new sorting options. You've even added it to the “ideas related to this collection” section. Nice! I see you’ ve take
20250118 / Feature I might want Can we differentiate between music and other audio?
Can’t export a canvas to a JSON file. Bummer. Can’t import a JSON file as well… Can we get more portability access with our canvases?
If it was hard work that counted, the donkey would own the farm.
Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk.
One of the most dangerous feelings in the world is when you encounter a conceptual framework that maps onto your experience and it just seems to “clic
Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working p
Most admissions officers at elite universities genuinely want to see each candidate as a whole person. They genuinely want to build a campus with a di
Don’t fear failure. Fear average.
Whether my creative ideas are rooted in an immediate context window or not a box is required. my head is also a box, but not a good one at storing ide
I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out dif
The product is the wrapper around the story.
The reason you might be having trouble with your practice in the long run—if you were capable of building a practice in the short run—is nearly always
BRIAN ENO So what you see when you watch someone surfing is they take control momentarily, to situate themselves on a wave, and then they surrender. T
Wild Ferrari sold 13,700 cars last year. Market cap $90 billion. Volkswagen sold 9 million cars last year. Market cap $40 billion.
still one of my favorite lines of all time: and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do
"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
every photo you take with a kid looks just intentional and coordinated if you mimick their facial expression
The most charismatic people I know, who seem to have this radiant, magnetic quality to their presence, are actually those who actively invite you to t
You have to actually like people, be present, and set down whatever stands between you and vibrant, pulsing reality. It's a lot more like practicing h
Just as the printing press proliferated printed text and commodified knowledge and communication, AI is accelerating the speed of inference and democr
The one thing technology doesn’t provide us with is a sense of how to make the best use of technology.
*Help users achieve their long-term goals. We want to understand a user’s true goals, and help them achieve them. If you want to be more connected to
Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories—stories that resonate and spread.
This dysfunctional relationship between Sales and Marketing is the kiss of death in a buyer-driven world. Buyers begin their journey online, conductin
do not assume that your suffering is a proof of your authenticity. do not fall in love with it. renunciation of pleasure can easily turn into pleasure
You do not lack resources. Just vision and courage. The world is begging to reward you for the right thing. Only thing stopping you is the fact that
If you value intelligence above other human qualities you’re gonna have a bad time
People think freedom is the power to change what you dislike about the world around you. You can quit a job you hate. Leave a person who hurts you. Sw