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We live in societies around the world where “experts” run the show. Given the profound changes that are unfolding in our global economies and societies, we need to shift to explorers who can help us craft new pathways that can create far more value for all of us.
johnhagel.com • From Expert to Explorer
Whereas “goal” has become a tired and bloodless descriptor for the (supposed) intention to do something great, the word quest instills the right mentality for achieving a real-life personal victory:
A quest is an adventure, and you expect it to be one. You expect a quest to take you into a new and unfamiliar landscape. You expect there to be... See more
A quest is an adventure, and you expect it to be one. You expect a quest to take you into a new and unfamiliar landscape. You expect there to be... See more
David Cain • Do Quests, Not Goals
Social media’s combination of global reach,
performance metrics, platform design, content
format, and algorithmic interference have changed
how creators make for others, and how others
perceive and interact with creators' work.
The results are an eternal presence, persistent
feedback, an unrealistic expectation of virality,
harmful social comparison,
... See moreMatt Klein • Page Not Found
The book goes on to suggest a better path to future prosperity, consisting of:
* Eudaimonia: a good life, which is meaningfully rich - with relationships, ideas, emotion, health, fulfilment, great accomplishment and enduring achievement.
* Poeisis: generating new wealth, and multiplying the Common Wealth, as opposed to net-destructive forms of... See more
* Eudaimonia: a good life, which is meaningfully rich - with relationships, ideas, emotion, health, fulfilment, great accomplishment and enduring achievement.
* Poeisis: generating new wealth, and multiplying the Common Wealth, as opposed to net-destructive forms of... See more
Umair Haque • Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)
If you’re just posting and platforming because you feel like you should , then the point is to help tech billionaires buy more super yachts.
But if you’re doing this to find out what you have to say and to say it with your full chest, then there will be no fancy metric to calculate if it’s working or not. You’ll just simply know. And if it’s not... See more
But if you’re doing this to find out what you have to say and to say it with your full chest, then there will be no fancy metric to calculate if it’s working or not. You’ll just simply know. And if it’s not... See more
Courtney Romano • Hey Coco: Am I undisciplined?
Borrowing from Mark Twain, who borrowed from Josh Billings, the difference between getting this right and getting it almost right is the difference between the lightning bug and lightning.
André Chaperon • The Invisible Conversation (Attention & Value)
Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto a bag stuffed with a jumble of independent traits that helped our ancestors thrive.