Tom Hamilton
@tomilton
Product Manager in Austin, TX
Tom Hamilton
FOUR THINGS FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT
If you’re not failing, you’re not learning.
If you’re not learning, you’re not growing.
If you’re not growing, you’re not living.
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The most useful trait you can train within yourself: To stop seeing failure as a bad thing.
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Reflect: Then consider sharing this thought with others.
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If you’re not failing, you’re not learning.
If you’re not learning, you’re not growing.
If you’re not growing, you’re not living.
Share this:
The most useful trait you can train within yourself: To stop seeing failure as a bad thing.
Share this:
Reflect: Then consider sharing this thought with others.
THREE THI... See more
when we're struggling, we often jump straight to existential crisis. There must be something wrong with me. Other people don’t feel like this, so why do I?
Instead of these unhelpful thought loops, run through my simple 5 ‘S’ Check:
Sleep: Did you get enough rest last night?
Sustenance: Have you eaten enough today?
Social: Have you caught up with any l... See more
Instead of these unhelpful thought loops, run through my simple 5 ‘S’ Check:
Sleep: Did you get enough rest last night?
Sustenance: Have you eaten enough today?
Social: Have you caught up with any l... See more
Read this on X regarding the pursuit of purpose vs blind ambition:
I challenge the conclusion somewhat. You can have both. Its not all or nothing.
The danger zone is when ambition becomes a coping mechanism for deeper issues — trying to prove you’re enough, escaping pain, or clinging to success for identity. That’s where burnout, anxiety, and self-
... See moreThe work is important and mysterious. The hit Apple TV show Severance resonates so deeply because it literalizes what millions already experience: the splitting of self required by modern work culture. Its fictional brain procedure makes hyper visible the dissociation we've normalized as "professionalism"—that daily transformation where we suppress... See more
The use of psychedelics, such as psilocybin, and the practice of yoga share similarities as paths to ego dissolution, though they operate through distinct mechanisms.
Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind highlights how psychedelics can suppress the Default Mode Network (DMN) in the brain, which is associated with the ego. This suppression can le
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