Andreas Vlach

“Better to get your dopamine from improving your ideas than having them validated.” – Nat Friedman

There are countless untold stories of people caring for the young, the old, the sick, and the disabled. We like to romanticize this as beautiful, inspiring, and “proper”, but dealing with neurodegenerative diseases of the elderly is thankless, depressing, and exhausting.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Regret is a time machine to the past.

Worry is a time machine to the future.

Gratitude is a time machine to the present.

When you go deeper into the stack you realize this: in order to be productive, you need to have an end toward which you are working. You also need to have a means or a strategy to get there.

Ideas in psychology, philosophy, and literature can help you understand your ends—to choose them more consciously, and to choose new ones if the ones you’ve

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

An important thing that explains a lot of things is that good news takes time but bad news happens instantly