“Good listening, when it works, reveals new worlds beneath the surface of people’s words.“
-Charles Duhigg
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Good work. Real problems.
In which I reflect on my father’s recent passing and the importance of doing meaningful work in your life
”Adopt this ruthless strategy toward the past: Burn all the books, and train yourself to react to circumstances as they happen.”
-Robert Greene
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“Indefinite attitudes to the future explain what’s most dysfunctional in our world today.“
-Peter Thiel
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”We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
-Ray Bradbury
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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
-Maya Angelou
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I love Sapkowski’s writing. There are three separate interludes nestled between chapters 8 and 9 of Season of Storms.
He reminds me that - of course - the structure of a novel isn’t a rigid thing. It can be playful and surprising.
“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.”
-Frank Wilczek
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“As the economy changes, and our capacity to achieve creative insights becomes more important than ever, the need for fast originality is even more urgent.“
-Charles Duhigg
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“Instead of seeing philosophy as an end to which one aspires, see it as something one applies. Not occasionally, but over the course of a life—making incremental progress along the way. Sustained execution, not shapeless epiphanies.”
-Ryan Holiday
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“Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone.”
-Marcus Aurelius
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“Every individual is unavoidably an investor, too. When you choose a career, you act on your belief that the kind of work you do will be valuable decades from now.”
-Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
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Proprietary formats rot
I keep returning to these two recent articles that extoll the virtues of using simple, open, resilient file formats:
Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
A love letter to the CSV format
This is how simplicity scales within the ecosystem. Plain text persists. The more open and universal your format, the longer your message lives.
Our ideas deserve a fighting chance to outlive our software stack.
“If you want to kill creativity: Get five hours of sleep a night, fight traffic for two hours a day, and start each day with a piping hot thermos of a psychoactive drug. This is the unfortunate and inescapable reality of most Americans today.”
-David Kadavy
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“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
-C. S. Lewis
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“Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.”
-Heraclitus
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“Leaders who stay ‘above the details’ may do well in stable times, but riding a wave of change requires an intimate feel for its origins and dynamics.”
-Richard Rumelt
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”Myth and map became coincident.”
-John Foley (linguistic anthropologist at the University of Missouri)
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“If you don’t look back at yourself and wonder how you could be so wrong, then you haven’t put much effort into learning.”
From Expertise in the Age of Infinite Information by Curtis McHale
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“Bureaucracies form when people’s jobs are tied strictly to rules and procedures rather than the effect those things are supposed to have on the world.”
-Scott Berkun
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