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The freedom of information the internet brings helps us expose idiot intellectuals quickly and more accurately than ever before. But the internet also

“As a medium, the internet is defined by a built-in performance incentive. In real life, you can walk around living life and be visible to other peopl

I am tired of seeing speed as a selling point. I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time. I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxio

From Lily Chambers: I genuinely do not care if AI tools make me more productive. I am tired of seeing, "increased productivity" as a selling point. I

I can picture a life of trade offs, I can imagine the compromise and justifications for never committing to the work I love due to the responsibilitie

My definition of “Life’s Work:” “A lifelong quest to build something for others that expresses who you are” -via Patrick O’Shaughnessy

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

Most self-help stuff can be mulched into some version of “Calm the fuck down, keep moving, and have good goals“ John Carlton

We call it a belief system because it's more than a collection of values. It's how we see the world and what is missing. Make stuff you use every day

I'm thrilled to announce the launch of Downshift, the world's first decelerator program tailored for high performers in transition. Downshift is a tr

Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degr

“Find your passion” is also... well, bullshit.We tell young people to "find their passion" as if there's a vast forest before them, and somewhere amon

I can picture a life of trade offs, I can imagine the compromise and justifications for never committing to the work I love due to the responsibilitie

The world has always been a sorry and confused sort of place—yet poets and artists and scientists have ignored the factors that would, if attended to,

What Should You Do With Your Life? Directions and Advice

Most truths are like that, easy to hear or recite, hard to live in the sense that slowness is hard for most of us, requiring commitment, perseverance,

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietz

When we jump into a task without thinking about what we’re trying to accomplish, we can end up with solutions to the wrong problem. We can waste energ

How can we go from accumulating insights to embodying and integrating learnings?

Similarly, I think people need to ask themselves – and it might be easier if we ask each other – What do you really want to be doing? How did you fall

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness , as compared to encount

The problem, as we all know, is the gap between what we know and what we do with what we know.

AI feels 10x bigger. And 10x faster.That speed is the part I can’t quite process. There are days where it genuinely feels like I need a full-time job

My biggest issue with tools like Delphi that promise to help creators scale their time infinitely is that most people aren’t lacking information or

The problem, as we all know, is the gap between what we know and what we do with what we know.

You’re talking to a person at a party and his or her attention is elsewhere, annoyingly. How do you get their attention back to you, and then hold it

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with—rather than in competition with—the world

Someone needs to have the point of view and the audacity to communicate it, over and over, for a long time. That’s what other people will be attracted

Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills tha

Parnell shows that authors of color and queer authors are much more likely to have their work flagged as “adult content,” largely due to problems with

The whole thing about the Kardashians — the resistance they’ve kind of induced in people — is that it doesn’t feel consensual. You absorb information

i’ve found it incredibly difficult to come to terms with the fact that people can just come and go out of our lives and all we are left with is grief

When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic. We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of

13 Creative Commandments: 1. Talent is an important differentiator, but talent needs to put in the hours to excel. 2. Question everything. Question wh

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

One of the fundamental choices that you face on Earth is the degree to which you’ll pursue deeper but riskier fulfillment or practice avoidance that e

The five principles of prompting I developed work equally well as management techniques for humans: Give direction. Describe the desired style in de

People who are good at solving poorly defined problems don't get the same kind of kudos. They don’t get any special titles or clubs. There is no test

2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.

Susan Sontag (from “Regarding the Pain of Others”): “Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern exper

Any knowledge that is not firsthand is necessarily incomplete. There's no book or description that can be substituted for your personal psychological

Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they lov

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine

I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicki

We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it

humans don’t have fixed identities. we’re constantly testing. trying different versions of ourselves. seeing what gets rewarded. adjusting based on fe

I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.

If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun

Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing

A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu

We no longer learn about the world from institutions, or even the illusion of them. We learn about the world from people we care about. This binds our

The problem with non-hierarchical models is human beings are not non-hierarchical creatures. Like all anarchist ideals, the dream of infinite digital

I like thinking small. I like thinking of my reader as an individual.And even if I did this out of sheer stubbornness at first, I’ve come to think thi

GiftShop - The Finest Merch from the Finest Places

2023: Spend the first half of your career training your model and the second half licensing it out.

A Year of New Avenues

Two myths currently limit our collective imagination: the myth that advertising is the only possible business model for online companies, and the myth

The subscription model means content providers are paid regularly no matter the quality and quantity of the product. Makes sense – being paid on a reg

What tradition or practice from another culture or era do you think we should widely adopt?I wish patronage were widely adopted as an explicit social

Media and Machines.