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All of the people I know who are very talented and could be hugely successful have an obvious cringe activity standing between them and their reward and they just aren’t yet willing to walk into the tsunami of cringe

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one thing i think about a lot: it’s a lot easier to criticize a flawed thing than it is to put your own weight / belief / reputation behind your own (inevitably flawed) thing

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Warren Buffett used a very apt metaphor once to describe how the second-order problem is best described by a crowd at a parade: Once a few people decide to stand on their tip-toes, everyone has to stand on their tip-toes. No one can see any better, but they’re all worse off.

Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

In this process, Marx saw the seeds of a society that would eventually be reduced to two classes—owners and workers.

Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

instead of buying something why don’t you lay with your legs up on the wall and close your eyes

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I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.

Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots

Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life

Jessica Abel

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Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done

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