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What would have to be true for you to feel like you'd lived a meaningful life?

So my hack for manifesting is just to use this dynamic to reframe our desires. Instead of asking what do I want?—which requires abstract wanting, is u

in any context where you’re trying to understand someone quickly, (a job interview, a date, etc) the best questions are those that compress many dimen

Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same

Most people’s mental models of energy are flawed: they think there’s a ‘tank’ of energy that gets depleted as you spend it. This may be roughly true f

Your relationship with yourself cannot be built entirely around improvement. At some point, you have to become someone you are allowed to enjoy being.

Most of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make the

How to grow on X without producing slop X is a party, not a stage!

When you approach creating content like you are just trying to teach interesting ideas to your friends it leads to better quality and more fun.

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.

It’s a rather simple question that quickly gets to the core of someone’s sense of well-being and legitimacy: did your childhood leave you feeling that

Knowing what to do is a second order effect of doing

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

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.

Communities require tending: moderation, strategy, rituals, leaders, onboarding and programming, and conflict resolution.

For creators whose work depends on relationships — if your audience learns together, solves problems together, shares an identity, or wants to meet on

Fast fashion and mall brands used to look to the runways for inspiration. Now, much of their output has been slopified by back-end data and internet s

In an 1835 parliamentary motion, Ewart argued that, to compete with France, Britain needed to find “the best means of extending a knowledge of the Fin

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

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.

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

“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide

Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

“Everyone will just prompt their own movies” “Everyone will just prompt their own apps” You don’t get it. Humans crave shared context. They want to

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