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Every time you feel jealousy or envy towards some else, you should celebrate. To feel jealous of another is to get clarity on what you want in life.

You will watch your parents die and be buried. You will watch your newborn child emerge in a messy circus of heaving grunts and high-pitched wailing.

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

Recommendations are worthless. “You should....” “We could...” “Make it better...” “Improve the UX...” These are empty, weak, non-useful concepts

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The “5 salaries” idea: jobs pay you financially, educationally, psychologically, socially, and in freedom.

Weekly reflection questions via Lauren Currie What happened? What did I do well? What did I learn? How did I feel? What am I thinking about? via Sari

a thought after listening to Dave Fontenot on Invest like the Best : social media shifts our relationship with time because you feel like there’s an

Most of us were never taught how to navigate these thresholds.We were taught how to achieve, how to perform coherence, and how to move quickly toward

One thing I didn’t realize until later in life is how the incentives of an industry shape your mood, your outlook, and even your character. In early s

The makeup of a successful entrepreneur is a special blend of wanting to make the world better and possessing enough commercial aptitude to figure out

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

The personal development / productivity space is littered with conflicting advice of varying utility. It attracts the intellectually promiscuous. Comm

Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer: Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person h

One thing I didn’t realize until later in life is how the incentives of an industry shape your mood, your outlook, and even your character. In early s

I. “Each day, spend some time on two things: working toward something that will pay off years from now appreciating something that is happen

Success, to me, is having all of these things in my life because the joy that they bring me is so rewarding and deeply human. It brings me to the pres

The Real Audit If I were to make my own balance sheet today, it would look nothing like the ones we file at work. It would have lines like these: T

Maybe that's what this essay is really about: the journey from "What will this say about me?" to "What does this want to become?" From "How can I prov

Publishing your work increases your luck

In Curators are the new Creators, Gaby argues that this will create opportunities for curators — increasingly, we will pay people with good taste to h

AUFI: What’s one piece of advice you’d give to a brand in 2026?Dan: Make something genuinely great and tell people about it clearly.

Great positioning takes into account all of the following: The customer’s point of view on the problem you solve and the alternative ways of solving t

We all know “startups are hard,” but I think we tend to imagine that this difficulty is bounded, contained, modelable, a bit like running a marathon:

There are three ways to make a living: 1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich. 2) Tell the truth to those who want the t

It did not seem like a good idea to me that some of the richest people in the world were no longer rewarding people for having any particular skills,

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

A recent survey by Creators 4 Mental Health, an initiative dedicated to championing mental health in the creator economy, found that more than 62 perc

Even as fewer Americans read for pleasure and U.S. test scores indicate that student reading comprehension is trending downward, brands like Gap and G

“I might be coming to Baton Rouge... and if I do I will call you, because I will be looking to have some fun, which as you know usually means violence

I have come to understand that effortless does not mean passive. It means the cessation of resistance.

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