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"The way I think about coaching is very much how I think about parenting. Your ability to drive change is down to the quality of your relationship, not your hierarchy.

"When your kids are two years old, you say, 'Don't do that!' You're a benevolent dictator. But you have to be careful because when they're 25, you have very little authority over

"I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.” — Anthony Bourdain

“The trouble with market research is people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.” (David Ogilvy)

Unlike bad things, which tend to happen suddenly, good things tend to be built gradually, so are rarely newsworthy on any particular day. Thus, bad things dominate the news, even as overall the world gets better (albeit too slowly for us to notice).

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Want to help someone when they’re anxious? Ask them if they want empathy or they want a solution. Don't offer advice for how to solve a problem to someone who in that moment just wants a pat on the back.

Shane Parrish • Understanding Others' Emotions | Lisa Feldman Barrett

Idle agents will turn us into even more of productivity monsters
Every industrial leap promised more leisure. Instead, it raised the baseline.
Factories did not shorten ambition. And as agents run 24/7, time becomes even more yield-bearing.
So AI may mean we’ll have more time for “less mundane things”, but markets will likely turn that into higher

In 2013, the Chicago Sun-Times fired all 28 of its staff photographers. Every single one. Including John H. White, who had won a Pulitzer Prize.

The plan was simple. Reporters would shoot their own photos using iPhones. The technology had gotten good enough. The cameras were in everyone’s pockets. Why pay 28 salaries for something the existing staff