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We need to stop treating people as brains on a stick and pay more attention to what motivates people: What does this person care about, and how driven are they to get good at it? We shouldn’t just be looking for skillful teenage test-takers; we want people with enough intrinsic desire to learn and grow all the days of their life.
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Memory researchers have repeatedly found that the more elaborately you encode a memory, the stronger the memory will be. By elaborative encoding, they mean essentially the richness of the associations you form.
Nielsen Michael • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
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 knowledge or their academic qualifications. Here is the shocking truth: You actually choose them on the basis of their business skills. How they build their practices, how they market themselves, how
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as someone with adhd, i tend to overthink things. however, i am learning that sublime is a tool to help you get to know yourself. i know this can be realized with other tools, but for some reason sublime triggered the thought.
by adding cards and collections, it becomes clear what my interests are based on what i’ve added to sublime. adhd can make
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After ten years, nine months, and six days of running my agency Superfriendly, I shut it down. Finishing a project often triggers a sense of loss. When I pursue a worthy bet, I’m working toward an outcome for a set amount of time. And then, one day, I’m not. Even when I finish instead of quitting or giving up—especially when I do in a way that... See more
Dan Mall • Dan Mall’s 10 Principles for a Worthy Design Career | Figma Blog
reflections and How to design better?
Rule #9: Grieve the end
My collections here are a mess. Sometimes, I'm tempted to organize and clear up the overlapping themes—but the effort makes me pause only to realize, I don’t need to. It’s a mess, so what?
Maybe there’s something to find, and maybe I won't find it. But someone else might, and that’s enough. Or maybe it will find someone else.