Tejas Gawande
- The framework for Strategic Intuition calls the moment before a creative spark a state of ‘presence of mind’, a moment in which diffuse-mode thinking connects the dots. Research suggests this is a pretty common occurrence:
In a 2019 study, 98 professional writers and 87 physicists recorded their most creative idea each day, as well as what they wer
... See morefrom Working Without Working: The Creative Night Shift
Create time for Mind Wandering
Good things take time. Some of the best companies took many years before they found the right recipe
- Taste is eating software. Taste is the new weapon.
from Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. by Anu Atluru
Utility plus taste is the foundation of software now
- Consume old stuff when you're young and new stuff when you're old. This is the opposite of what most people do
from Tweet by David Perell
Algorithms have us addicted to distraction, and we need a "Slowness Revolution" to pull us out
- Exceptional people grow up in exceptional milieus
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exception... See morefrom Childhoods of Exceptional People
The adults had high expectations of the children; they assumed they had the capacity to understand complex topics, and therefore invited them into serious conversations and meaningful work, believing them capable of growing competent rapidly.
Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy
from The Top of My Todo List
A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying
- One way to rationalize this is that after being in the driver’s seat of such a large-scale, fast-paced effort, it’s hard for people to do nothing at all or go back to working for someone else. So pursuing something that can’t scale is a happy medium — maintaining full autonomy and control without the stress of chasing scale (and all that comes with... See more
from Pursuits That Can’t Scale by Anu
Chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale