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The way to become that exciting person whom people want to know is very easy. We simply picture the kind of person we want to be and surrender all the

people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.

free career tip: be so competent they forget you’re unmanageable

Customer feedback serves as the whetstone that sharpens intuition, rather than the source of product vision.

Or, as Nietzsche put it in an aphorism cited by Oppezzo and Schwartz, “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”I wouldn’t go so far, but th

"You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose."

As John Saltivier says in an essay about building a set of stairs, “surprising detail is a near universal property of getting up close and personal wi

John Folley. He says “‘Good taste' is simply to have a well formed opinion, in accordance with the realities of the Good and the True.” There are tast

A phrase that’s been showing up recently is, “no pressure.” It usually comes in a pitch letter of some sort, written by someone who isn’t in a positio

Follow curiosities down deep rabbit holes and emerge with unique ideas. Partake in vivid and varied adventures to build up a set of experiences that i

The world will be a richer, more colorful place when more people are freed up to learn, create, and build novel things that only they can. This might

“The things that are going to be valuable are the things you can’t teach or copy.”

Average at scale is no longer a profitable strategy, and differentiation within a smaller niche becomes necessary. Things like Replit, Urbit, APIs, an

To get the most out of third places, you’ve got to find one you enjoy frequenting. Mine your interests, Littman says, to discover a location that fulf

what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar a