Ulysses Chuang

On the other hand, a habit like lifting weights has an extremely high rate of return. Getting stronger will make you more fit, give you more energy, increase your focus and mental performance, reduce effects of aging, raise your metabolism and help your body process food better, and so on. Ironically, lifting weights would probably make you a... See more

Manson came up with a list of his own six suggestions for keystone habits, including meditation, reading, writing, socialising, and exercising. Manson says his list of habits "provide a nice foundation for a healthy life in all domains: physically, emotionally, psychologically and socially."

He also includes cooking, which might not seem an obvious... See more

Participant observation in a vastly alien cultural world is not just humbling, it’s like being a six-year-old in terms of cultural maturity. You either become curious about how to function better or leave in a frenzy of nonstop irritation at all the constant corrections. No one can give you a ‘download’ for a culture. And your Frommer’s guide does... See more

Abstract office work, compared to “the job site” — which requires the worker to engage with reality as it is, to conform herself to its limits and demands, rather than to make demands of it — “can be a fairly paranoid place.” When you can’t “appeal to concrete standards,” you are “never quite sure where you stand — everything’s open to... See more

It would be easy for me to say to myself: “I should care more about business opportunities. I should double down on my StrategyU business.” or “I should push harder with promoting my book, I should do whatever possible to land on the top podcasts.”

But when I look at how I spend my time, I don’t want either of those things. Instead, I’m spending... See more

Older adults nevertheless crave validation from the youth, which is one reason they are mocked. Young people sense their desire to be seen as cool and deprive them of this by taunting them. This desire for esteem may be why older adults won’t exert any authority in response to energetic young conflict entrepreneurs who regularly yell at them or... See more

I wanted to say everything. And said nothing. I perceived the text about “something” as a comprehensive list of all thoughts that I had, have and will have about “something”. It sounds silly, but I was stuck with this when I had actually started to put my thoughts in order. But you don’t have to be afraid. In regular conversations, we express a lot... See more

the gatekeepers are failing, so why not get rid of them altogether? — but setting that matter aside for a moment, how did it come to this? When did American fiction become a specialty pursuit, or more importantly (and here I am forced to wave away a bunch of arguments, also very popular on this platform, about MFAs, about how no one wants to... See more

You can only ever know another individual if you meet them in open dialogue — if you treat them as unfinished , as capable of surprise.

If someone seems boring to you, or a bad fit, it might be that you don’t know how to prompt them, that you haven’t seen them react to the context that brings out their full being. You probably don’t know how much... See more