Vaibhav Parekh
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Vaibhav Parekh
Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.
– Justin Welsh
Dr. Gurner striking deep in hostile territory as always
I know that the people who will make you feel warm and fuzzy when you’re sad, and the people who will give you brutally honest feedback, are usually different people. Ideally you want to have relationships with both kinds, and reward them for their strengths, rather than getting mad at them for failing to do what they’re bad at.
It's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius."
I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy.
Some smart, low-conscientiousness people manage to flourish without discipline, making careers out o... See more
"To create, one must first question everything. Never adopt someone else's conclusion without putting it to the test of your own reasoning and imagination."
- Eileen Gray
"Nobody reads advertising. People read what interests them and sometimes it's an ad." — Howard Gossage via Russell Davies.
People don't want you to be perfect. What they want is to feel connected with you.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different containers. A website is a container.