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That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe

Traumatisation is most usually presented as anunassailable, concrete fact, and this is where I need to be respectful. If someone brings a firmconvicti

when the trauma label has been appliedby outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place andour culture

When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic. We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of

13 Creative Commandments: 1. Talent is an important differentiator, but talent needs to put in the hours to excel. 2. Question everything. Question wh

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.

Everyone wants to be picked, but no one wants to organize the collective ‘we’. It’s the ‘we’ that creates a school of thought, a movement, a network,

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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera

My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter

Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, a

That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe

5/ You try to figure things out rather than feel through them How do you drop a hot frying pan? You feel it, and you will let go. All your bad hab

Here is my definition of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the persistent, unrealistic, fear-inducing, fucking ridiculous belief that you are su

Sometimes the prize feels closer, other times farther away. Still other times it feels like we are drowning in aimlessness and exasperation. An identi

"Failure is a data point." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC

"Failure isn’t an indictment of your basic worth but rather a piece of valuable feedback." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC

most of success comes from doing the mundane and often distasteful stuff, like identifying and dealing with problems and pushing hard over a long time

Viktor Frankl wrote dozens of books, but only one,  Man’s Search For Meaning,  was not aimed at commercial success. Frankl wrote  Man’s Search For Mea

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Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

my sense is that people who take a long time to respond to messages, or tend to go into shame spirals about them, often put a lot of pressure on thems

If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun

Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing

A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

There’s a phrase making the rounds online: “The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.” I’ve been wondering if its resonance reveals a quiet fatigu

I am not less capable because I refuse to live in constant activation. I’m just less exploitable.

My body was not an obstacle to ambition, but the barometer for what sustainable ambition could look like now.

The Science Finally Catches Up: New Research Confirms ADHD as an Evolutionary Advantage, Not a Disease

Meditation Tips for a Lifetime of Practice

When we’re mindful of what we feel in our body, she says, our mind naturally settles in the present. This happens without effort—and it makes us calme

Jerry Seinfeld: "You must master waiting. 'Show's gonna be delayed a half hour.' Fine. Plane's gonna be delayed two hours. Fine. Career's gonna be de

But there’s two parts to what I said about moving a step at a time. One, that it’s towards what I’m drawn to. At that point in time, with the informat

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insight from Gurwinder Bhogal: People want to belong to a tribe, and one way that people belong to a tribe is by having the same beliefs as the member

We still instinctively long for this kind of belonging, as our sacrifices to sports teams, fraternities, or churches demonstrate.

Surviving…whatever all this is… doesn’t have to mean being left a shell of a human. In culture today, there’s an attempt to make something out of it.

The latest season touches on a similar note — in which Robinson’s neighbor sneaks a pig in a Richard Nixon mask into his home. It ends with an all-too

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