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"Every end of the year, I sit down to do some personal reviews, as well as collect my notes. Since I have hundreds of meetings with founders and tech leaders worldwide every year, looking at it all …"

"Be audacious"

"I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible "

"Every year, we make predictions. Our missives on 2025, made in October ’24, registered the most direct hits since we first pulled out our Ouija board a decade ago. Our objective isn’t to be right — though that helps — bu"

"Parties are a public service; here's how to throw them."

"For the seventh year in a row, the Future Perfect staff — plus assorted other experts from around Vox — convened near the end of the year to make forecasts about major events in 2026.  Perhaps in keeping with the year we"

"“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler This marks the eighth consecutive year I’ve pulled together a list like "

"⚡ Advanced Maestro Testing: Event Validation & AI-Powered Test Generation Building reliable, scalable, and intelligent test automation for Android apps. 🧭 Introduction In Part 1, we explored …"

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"Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them"

"Elm Wealth distills insights from 20 timeless personal finance books — from Bogle to Housel — into simple, evidence-based wisdom for smarter, low-cost investing."

"28 films for comfort: from your teens to retirement"

"Self-Help Gets Philosophical"

"Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations — spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching."

"A fully comprehensive guide on creating, improving, and profiting from GPTs."

"A couple lessons from the churn pit"

"Engineering leaders spend an astonishing amount of time just finding things out. Before every 1:1, there's a ritual: check the team's roadmaps, reference PRs, skim Jira and Jellyfish, scan Slack for anything that blew up"

"I always craved for complications in movies. Not weirdness, but complication. Like, after watching a movie, when you say to yourself: "what on earth was that? let me see that movie again!" So, I created this list which"

"// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack."

"Be rude to ChatGPT. It makes it better."

"An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time."

"I share how to build a culture of recognition that amplifies your impact by spotlighting others and celebrating shared wins."

"Eight thoughts from a strange and harrowing world"

"These technologies could transform industries—CO2 "bubble batteries" for grid-scale storage, ultrasound to destroy pancreatic tumors surgery-free, and more"

"We’ve caught glimpses of a future that values autonomy, empathy, and individual expertise. Where interdisciplinary cooperation influences discovery and creation at an unrelenting pace. In the coming year, we will begin t"

"Charts and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, health, science, and the long story of progress"

"Modern trends and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, science, and the long story of progress. But first: an announcement!"

"The greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who can take a fresh perspective"

"For many young people entering the workforce, the stigma of hands-on jobs is fading. There is a competitive appeal – and they all require human expertise"

"Work should only take up 25% of our time. These three steps make that happen."

"The most important question you will ever ask yourself might surprise you. Find out what it is here."

"Technology's top thinkers weigh in on the year ahead."

"Every week, I save dozens of screenshots of charts, essay passages, science and economics papers, and tweets."

"I borrowed this concept from Tom Whitwell as a way of cultivating a habit of curiosity. My 2025 highlights: It was a year of exploration. I left Macro Oceans. I “interned” at Roo Code and got an early.."

"30 underrated reasons to be thankful, starting with the fact that atomic bombs don’t ignite the atmosphere"

"some notes on pleasure"

"Learn how Edison's Menlo park team laid the groundwork, not only for how we light our homes and offices, but for almost every aspect of our wired world."

"Plus, a hack for reaching those goals"

"Discover why engineers hate managers, the common management anti-patterns that destroy trust, and practical solutions from someone who’s been on both sides."

"Get more from Engineering at Patreon on Patreon"

"arpa and xerox parc, agency, stoicism, a set of guidelines for ambitious endeavors"

"Karpathy recently posted about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases — collecting raw sources into a directory, having an LLM “compile” them into a wiki of interlinked markdown …"

"What’s the minimum I need to have, and what else drives my life?’ instead of ‘What’s the place where I can get the maximum of both?’”"

"I’m not cheap, but I’m definitely worth your while”"

"R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on"

"We don't remember isolated facts, we remember things in context (p. 65)**"

"This is the time that folks in the future will look back at and say, “Oh to have been alive and well back then!”"

"Focusing on happiness can actually make us feel less happy."

"1) Living in the same place as the people you love matters. I probably have 10X the time left with the people who live in my city as I do with the people who live somewhere else. 2) Priorities matter. Your remaining face time with any person depends largely on where that person falls on your list of life priorities. Make sure this list is set by you—not by unconscious inertia. 3) Quality time matters. If you’re in your last 10% of time with someone you love, keep that fact in the front of your mind when you’re with them and treat that time as what it actually is: precious."

"Long term predictions are more interesting. Humans seem to be the only animals that can make them. We can not only make plans based on what we want now, but what we predict we will want in the future."

"ding. Read them because you’re interested in a certain topic"

"At 99, Teiichi Igarashi climbed Mt. Fuji"

"“Treat yourself like a piece of your writing which you set aside for a week so you could look at it fresh.”"

"Aversion to “hard” goes away once you break a sweat."

"Ansoff – Growth Matrix Strategy"

"Genes account for about 50% of the variance in happiness.19 Even lottery winners and newly-made quadriplegics do not see as much of a change in happiness as you would expect.20 Presumably, genes shape your happiness by shaping your personality, which is known to be quite heritable.21"

"We believe that people actually need to take time to develop a passion. And the research shows that, for most people, passion comes after they try something, discover they like it, and develop mastery—not before.”"

"Here’s the 5-Step Process: Have clear goals. Identify the problems that stand in your way. Accurately diagnose the problems to get at their root causes. Design plans that will get you around them. Do what’s necessary to push these designs through to results."

"Don’t be the best. Be the only."

"I don’t think we really find meaning at all. We build it, most often with others. The only real antidote I’ve found to a sense of ever-present sameness is to attend to things that grow and change: living things. Care for something alive—start with something small and pitiful like a plant, if you want. A cat; a friend; a neighbor. Be wasteful and unproductive in your pursuits."

"The Trend is your Friend: If you are fortunate to be able to pick between jobs or find demand for your skills that allow you to choose between opportunities in a company, do not select the higher paying one but the one that is aligned with the future. Shakespeare wrote “we must take the current when it serves."

"Let’s face it. Without a plan, life just happens to you."

"17. Done is better than perfect"

"Reward yourself after completing challenges, even badly."

"To know and not to do is not to know. – Wang Yangming"

"“…evolution has shaped our minds so that we are almost inevitably destined to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate and criticise ourselves; to focus on what we’re lacking; to be dissatisfied with what we have; and to imagine all sorts of frightening scenarios, most of which will never happen. No wonder humans find it hard to be happy!”"

"Ergo, our reasoning is heavily motivated"

"Listening Is in Your Interest, Even If You’re Totally Selfish Listening empathetically is nice to do because it makes people feel good, and it deepens relationships"

"So, Joe, what are your main hypotheses"

"So what are we doing here? Are we crazy? How should we feel about spending our lives learning and forgetting?"

"Knowledge is reality — to improve your reality, upgrade your knowledge."

"For the first time since his creation,” Keynes wrote, “man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem—how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.”"

"Does this action bring me closer to or further from my idealized self?"

"In short, detach inputs from outputs."

"Sampling studies suggest that, whenever our mind is wandering, we think about the future around half of the time,” Bailey says. “This is why we plan our entire day in the shower. In fact, one study found that, when our mind is wandering, we think about our goals 14x as often — this lets us work and live more intentionally"

"If the US population was represented by 1,000 people in a room, the richest one person would have four times more money than the poorest 500 people."

"The amount of time they spend talking. It doesn't even matter what they say, just how much they say it"

"John Zelenski, a psychology professor at Carleton University, describes social relationships as the chief building blocks of happiness"

"Solipsism is a philosophical concept according to which a person recognizes only their mind as the only reality that always exists and is always available. Mark Twain demonstrates the main message of solipsism in his story The Mysterious Stranger:"

"you want to be excellent and experience something fully, then you’ve got to go all in, but only to a point. If your identity becomes too enmeshed in any one concept or endeavor—be it your age, how you look in the mirror, a relationship, or your career—then you are likely to face significant distress when things change, which, for better or worse, they always do."

"Accelerate cycle time. Every process can be speeded up. But only do this after you have followed the first three steps"

"Bad luck is easy to identify when you fail and good luck is easy to ignore when you succeed."

"Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results"

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”"

". Choose optimism. Pessimism is more persuasive than optimism. But optimism in the face of a difficult situation is what motivates people to find a way forward"

"Psychologists have long known that our locus of control for an event greatly impacts our perception of it. Awful things feel much worse when they’re uncontrollable. In contrast, believing that we have control makes even horrible events bearable."

"For me, that list includes pursuing deep, meaningful, unconditional relationships with my kids; a healthy, resilient marriage; strong, loving relationship with my parents and siblings; a few deep and durable friendships; faith and connection beyond myself; and doing consequential work with people I enjoy and admire."

"1. You give the power to whatever you blame."

"4. I know that being silly is a gift. You un-taboo silliness for everyone around yo"

"And so, many of us don’t have friends anymore; we have followers. We don’t deeply care about each other’s lives; we consume them as content"

"hese days, being fit and spending time with your young kids. If you chase status symbols, be careful that they will change one day."

"When your boss loves you, you have options. Here's how to give them what they need, so you get what you want. Bring solutions, not complaints; keep your manager in the loop; over-communicate, and more."

"Here are phrases I often use when sharing feedback because it makes it easier for me to speak openly and quickly, and encourages my recipient to take action."

"How to turn your idea into a working prototype in minutes"

"A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching."

"The Internet is dead. The best we can do? Try to save it. Bringing you a regularly updated, curated collection of..."

"How to master the emerging skill that can make or break an AI product"

"How to set up Cowork, Claude Code, and Dispatch as a PM. Skills, plugins, self-improving knowledge bases, and the CLAUDE.md router pattern."

"AI-enhanced software development has shown what's possible; doing the same for the management of process work is also possible if leaders can focus on what matters"

"The four hardest senior engineers to manage and how to coach them."

"The hardest part of adaptive leadership is practicing it when the system pushes back. Over decades of studying leaders in politics, medicine, and business, Ron Heifetz at Harvard found that those who made progress under "

"For 15+ years, B2B leaders with per seat models treated DAU/WAU/MAU as something B2C companies obsessed over. We had ARR. We had NRR. We had logo retention. Engagement was a “nice to have&#82…"

"Reflections on moving from scrum to shape up (and from maintenance mode to high output and happier engineers)"

"As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineerin"

"The top 100 applications for LLMs, according to users."

"Learn a security-first approach to building web applications by building a secure project management platform with Next.js."

"We’ve read a lot of strategy at this point in the book. We can judge a strategy’s format, and its construction: both are useful things. However, format is a predictor of quality, not quality itself. The remaining questio"

"I got asked again last week: “What’s the difference between KPIs and OKRs?”The person asking was a PM at a mid-sized company. Smart guy. Been in product for five years. His company had just rolled out OKRs and he was sta"

"Linear's principles for building software: quality over speed, consistency, and why doing things differently requires conviction."

"Learnings from turning PMs into 10x product engineers"

"Companies are systems, and systems always have a bottleneck. By fixing one bottleneck at a time, you will supercharge your company."

"Ten picks from one of HBR’s most popular newsletters."

"The order in which you should prioritize"

"Open-source second brain for product managers. Markdown files + Claude Code skill. 17 PM scenarios, 99.5% eval pass. MIT-licensed. One-command install."

"Even outspoken and highly engaged teams sometimes find a specific issue or topic that is difficult to discuss."

"Why Certainty Needs Constraints"

"8 hot takes on where I think the PM role is headed next"

"How Strategy Choice can Make Something out of Very Little"

"Aim for one goal: behavior change. Sweet, sweet behavior change. Everything else you might want to say? Keep it to yourself."

"How to identify these blindspots for yourself, and most importantly, how to avoid them"

"Advice for new managers: 10 powerful people-management strategies to shift your focus from tasks to relationships."

"As a software engineer, I often work on big tasks that require hours of continuous and focused work. However, we have plenty of meetings, colleagues asking us something in Slack, and lunch breaks. Add a colleague who com"

"I'm often asked what's the best way for a new product manager to learn the fundamentals of the role or for an experienced product manager to continue to master their craft. Most folks are looking for"

"The software development industry during the 2010–2020 decade created roles such as Engineering Manager (EM) and Tech Lead (TL). People had already been using one or the other, but during that decade, most companies adop"

"When managing a growing organization, it can be useful to have certain document templates on hand. Here’s a collection of documents I find useful."

"Playing To Win What has Changed the Most for Strategy Implications for Your Strategy When I think about the changes in the context for strategy across my career, my view contrasts starkly with the …"

"Why growth depends on absorption and recovery"

"Your product's core abstractions determine whether new features compound into a moat or just add to a feature list. Here's how to get it right."

"For new initiatives a product manager typically starts by writing an internal press release announcing the finished product. The target audience for the press release is the new/updated product’s customers"

"Communicate to every engineer the next most important issue for them to work on."

"Summed up, the problem with user stories is that it’s too many assumptions and doesn’t acknowledge causality. When a task is put in the format of a user story ( As a [type of user], I want [some action], so that [outcome] ) there’s no room to ask ‘why’ — you’re essentially locked into a particular sequence with no context"

"After analyzing the results, Kruse found that they all shared 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management. These include:Focusing on minutes, not hours.Doing one thing at a time.Not using to-do-lists.Beating procrastination with time travel.Making it home for dinner.Using a notebook.Processing their email only once a day.Avoiding meetings at all costs.Saying “no” to almost everything.Following the 80/20 Rule.Delegating most tasks.Creating theme days.Touching things only one time.Establishing and following a morning routine.Maintaining their energy by getting enough sleep, eating healthy, and working in sprints."

"A better answer is to actually take breaks when you need them. Listen to your body and schedule regular breaks away from your screen at least every 90 minutes."

"But the biggest advantage of timeboxing might be that it gives you a feeling of control over your calendar — which can help you feel happier at work"

"Effective executives do first things first, and they do one thing at a time."

"Our cars, planes, factories, food supply, antibiotics, and so forth are just improved versions of what we had in, say, 1960"

"The Leadership Principles Amazon has a list of 14 leadership principles, which are available here. They are: Customer Obsession Ownership Invent and Simplify Are Right, A Lot Learn and Be Curious Hire and Develop the Best Insist on the Highest Standards Think Big Bias for Action Frugality Earn Trust Dive Deep Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit Deliver Results"

"To build a high performing team, you must be maniacal about: Hiring — who you hire, how you hire. Training — new hire training, ongoing training, skills training, leadership training. Learning — creating a learning culture where feedback and improvement are desired and expected. This is an incredibly important subject and I wrote a series of Medium articles about it a couple of years ago."

"Principle #4: Leading By Example Is Everything"

"• Impact: is typically assessed by considering the number of users affected by the service disruption. • Urgency: typically assesses how pressing it is to address the incident promptly. It represents the time-critical nature of an incident or issue and the need for immediate attention and resolution."

"• What would you do differently? What’s missing? • What grade would you give this? What would make this an A+ in your eyes? • What is the most interesting 20% of this? Most boring 20%? • Could you mark if any areas of this memo are confusing?"

"Think of it as a recipe for success in adulthood."

"A practical guide to building fast, scalable, and reliable web apps"

"Learn 50 essential system design concepts in one place - scaling, CAP/PACELC, sharding, caching, queues, reliability patterns, and security. A fast, practical primer for beginners and interview prep."

"The most common AI terms explained, simply"

"OAuth was first introduced in 2007."

"A guide to using AI as a long-term thinking partner (including prompts to get you started)"

"20 rules to follow when crafting Claude Skill Skills are instructions paired with scripts & resources that Claude loads dynamically to improve its performance on specialized tasks. Think of skills"

"Most professionals waste $20/month on ChatGPT and get pocket change in return. The smart ones invest 10 minutes in setup and extract $20,000 in value."

"The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan."

"Model Context Protocol - A Deep Dive"

"A web developers guide to browser internals"

"How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories"

"You've read Team Topologies and everyone has come together to do some event storming and map out some domains. You've used this to produce a new technology strategy around microservices and an organisational structure wh"

"Latency, throughput, and bandwidth are the core metrics that describe the performance of a network or distributed system."

"AI coding assistants became game-changers this year, but harnessing them effectively takes skill and structure. Here's my workflow for planning, coding, and ..."

"Frontend System Design: How Modern Social Feeds Are Designed and Built"

"Turn AI coding assistants into more reliable development partners"

"Struggling to finish side projects due to limited time? In my latest blog post, I share how I improved my productivity using AI tools like LLMs and Cursor IDE. Learn to refine specs, bootstrap code, and iterate effective"

"YOU ONLY HAVE TEN SECONDS TO SHOW YOU’RE A SOMEBODY"

"Practice needs to be interleaved and varied"

"these ten favorite episodes from a decade of conversations with creative icons. Illustrations courtesy of Elle Luna /"

"Start your sentences with “you.”  (i.e. “you look great” vs. “that dress looks great”)"

"happy, and we don’t even realise how bad we are. You can find an excellent overview of this research"

"Most jobs don’t offer their employees great creativity, impact, or control over what they do and how they do it."

"Sacrificing happiness for success doesn’t work. Instead, be happy now and use it to become more successful."

"Expressing Gratitude Cultivating Optimism Avoiding Overthinking and Social Comparison Practicing Acts of Kindness Nurturing Social Relationships Developing Strategies for Coping Learning to Forgive Increasing Flow Experiences Savoring Life’s Joys Committing to Your Goals Practicing Religion and Spirituality Taking Care of Your Body (Meditation, Physical Activity, Acting Like a Happy Person)"

"Saying “I don’t know” is a necessary step toward enlightenment."

"The first draft of anything is shit"

"What choices can you make today that minimize the regret you'll feel as an 80-year-old looking back on your life? When you minimize future regret, you sleep well knowing you're maximizing fulfillment"

"After I make my coffee, I take an apple and put it on the counter.”"

"We all have a set point of happiness that we return to whenever the euphoria of a pleasant experience or the sting of an unpleasant one fades out. We assume this set point to be static, but with deliberate training, it is movable."

"Prepare. Learn. Perfect. Adhere."

"Just as atoms are the building blocks of molecules, atomic habits are the building blocks of remarkable results.”"

"Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language."

"There are 6 myths related to vulnerability: Vulnerability is weakness “I don’t do vulnerability” “I can go it alone”"

"3rd Law: Conceal Your Intentions"

"humans love to talk about themselves"

"Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.” – Naval Ravikant"

"Many of those surveyed felt guilty after watching the cat videos"

"Newport recommends that you “schedule every minute of your day”. While this may sound drastic, this time-blocking approach to productivity isn’t as extreme as it sounds."

"What feels most important to you about [meeting/project/process/situation]? What challenges are you most concerned with (or focused on) right now? Or—in an ideal world—how would we move this forward? What one thing do you wish you could change about this? I have an idea I need your advice on [share idea]— a. What do you think I need to do to get others on board? b. (Or) What key concerns or goals do you think I should keep my eye on during this? If you were me, how would you handle [meeting/project/process/situation] ? Tell me more about what made you choose that route? If [this thing] happens, how would that impact you/your crew? What are you optimizing for"

"James Clear, the best-selling author of Atomic Habits, thinks motivation is overrated: “Stop waiting for motivation or inspiration to strike you and set a schedule for your habits”. Motivation flows from action, not the other way around"

"Money makes people happier than psychotherapy. [Johannes Haushofer & co]"

"Several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason — Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half knowledge. This pursued through Volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."

"Strategies for living intentionally."

"Blog post: Agentic development basics by Steve Klabnik"

"Who, what, where, when, why, how"

"The best ongoing resource for mental models, decision-making frameworks, and learning how to think. Dense, rigorous, worth the time."

"The gold standard for online personal knowledge archives. Deeply researched long-form essays on statistics, psychology, AI, and many other topics."

"How can I influence others without manipulating them? I explore five doors of influence: rationalising, asserting, negotiating, inspiring and bridging, to persuade with respect."

"On a supposedly difficult thing"

"Acting on impulse often feels good at first, but brings trouble later. Understanding these urges can help you control them"

"Smarter AI Systems with Retrieval, Autonomy, and Memory"

"We're a quarter of the way into the new century. To mark this milestone, we asked the UK's top minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 2000."

"Improve the quality of your decisions by focussing on three key elements."

"Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you'll get real work done. Interactive visualizations show the math behind bad days."

"Change the board the game is played on"

"People don’t care about you"

"can remember very well many of the conversations I had with Leo. What he did so well was to quickly realize the law of averages and know that to get a single reply, a large number of emails must be sent to bloggers for a potential guest post. This knowledge meant he rarely felt bad if he didn’t get a response. Instead he knew it’s just the way it works. What is perhaps even more powerful than just knowing about ratio thinking, is that Leo used this knowledge to his advantage. If he wanted to get a single guest article published, he would sit down and send 5 emails. We had around a 20% success rate based on the emails Leo sent"

"People who are obsessed with being happy tend to wind up less happy than everyone else There's a growing body of evidence behind this idea. In the book, David cites a study that found people who were asked to read about the benefits of happiness were less happy after watching a happy film than people who read something unrelated"

"Mercier and Sperber prefer the term “myside bias.” Humans, they point out, aren’t randomly credulous. Presented with someone else’s argument, we’re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we’re blind about are our own."

"Doing so requires engaging with one of life’s fundamental questions: Are we in charge of the ways we change?"

"Base questions of the goals for the coaching — here are some general areas:strengthsweaknesseswhat’s it like to work with them? Do you enjoy it? Look forward to it?what would you like the person to know about how to best work with you?what does this person have to learn to be successful at the next level"

"Don’t deliver facts. The more effective strategy is to instill doubt and let them convince themselves."

"In summary, motivation is trying to feel like doing stuff. Discipline is doing it even if you don’t feel like it. You get to feel good afterwards. Discipline, in short, is a system"

"Researchers think the connection between flow and well-being has something to do with three things: suppressing brain activation in structures associated with thinking about ourselves, dampening activation in structures associated with negative thoughts, and increasing activation in reward-processing regions"

"The thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult.It’s not an apology if it comes with an excuse"

"How much effort is it to implement? How easy is it to use and learn? How readable is it? How reversible is it? How maintainable is it? How fast and performant is it? How scalable is it? How secure is it? How much community support is behind it? How easy is it to debug?"

"Memories of past events are filtered. You keep what makes sense and throw out the confusing details"

"Write your obituary, then work backwards to live it.” – Buffett"

"This line from Bruce Springsteen captures, in retrospect, almost every argument or grudge I’ve held onto: We fought hard over nothin’ / We fought till nothin’ remained / I’ve carried that nothin’ for a long time. There are very few arguments I’ve had with my wife that I care that much about anymore."

"There is the daunting issue of what constitutes a meaningful way of life in a world in which all talk of purposes has become obscure."

"He settled near Montparnasse in Paris, where a group of intellectuals gathered around him in the cafs of the Left Bank, especially the Caf de Flore. He participated in the founding of the underground group Socialisme"

"Keep giving new things a try. Have hobbies. Develop different sides of yourself."

"In Discourses and Selected Writings Epictetus said: Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test."

"No one can say for sure, but here is a stab at it. Live as if you died, but were resuscitated and every minute was a gift. Every person you meet is an opportunity for kindness. Don’t read for show, read to be better. Be forgiving of others, but don’t demand forgiveness for yourself. Try to hold as few opinions as possible. Pick a “Cato” and judge each difficult decision with: “What Would ____ Do?” Practice good spending habits (keep in touch with poverty). Always consider the worst case scenario. Keep a list of what you’ve learned from other people (and remember to thank them often). Get up early every day—as early as you can. Take cold showers. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

"Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. — Epictetu"

"s to reduce suffering (dukkha), and anger squarely gets in the way of that goal."

"Everything has two handles … If your brother acts wrongly towards you, don’t try to grasp the matter by this handle, that he is wronging you, but rather by the other, that he is your brother and was brought up with you…"

"oysa sorun onu değiştirmektir. - Karl Marx"

"Man must be invented each day. – Jean-Paul Sartre"

"If you fail to grasp life, it will elude you. If you do grasp it, it will elude you anyway. So you must follow it — and “you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow.”"

"Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.” – Jean-Paul Sartre"

"An emotion, then, does not consist in being moved by the appearances of things, but in surrendering to them and following up this casual impulse. For if anyone supposes that turning pale, bursting into tears, sexual arousal, deep sighs, flashing eyes, and anything of that sort are a sign of emotion and mental state, he is mistaken and does not understand that these are merely bodily impulses…. A man thinks himself injured, wants to be revenged, and then — being dissuaded for some reason — he quickly calms down again. I don’t call this anger, but a mental impulse yielding to reason. Anger is that which overleaps reason and carries it away."

"Someone floating in a tank is an indeterminate blob… Is he courageous, kind, intelligent, witty, loving? It’s not merely that it’s difficult to tell; there’s no way he is. Plugging into the machine is a kind of suicide"

"Kant did not think happiness was some trivial and dispensable trink"

"On social media, we curate our posts, comments and interactions, knowing they are visible to others. But it doesn’t stop there. How many of us roam the real world with an eye to a good background for a selfie?"

"Short-form video is the logical outgrowth of an increasingly oral culture. - Katherine Dee - Start a free trial today for full access."

"relationships, studies show that a good, strong relationship needs at least a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions."

"For Jung, synchronicity didn’t just account for coincidences, but also ESP, telepathy, and ghosts. And to this day, research shows that people who experience more coincidences tend to be more likely to believe in the occult as well"

"One 2014 study of more than 3,000 people in Finland found that the amount of sleep that correlated with the fewest sick days was 7.63 hours a night for women and 7.76 hours for men."

"Happily Ever After doesn’t exist. Every day you wake up and decide to love your partner and your life—the good, the bad and the ugly. Some days it’s a struggle and some days you feel like the luckiest person in the world"

"“You’re both in charge of your own happiness,” B.R. says. “You can’t make someone else happy. You can help, encourage, and support, but it’s up to all of us to find our own path to being happy people.”"

"Some species experience negligible senescence — they show little to no diminishment with age."

"When people think of poverty they think in terms of money and material resources, but a large part of being poor is suffering from a lack of social connections and networks, and living in a low-income area with no infrastructure that enables the leap up to the middle class."

"After research and upon reflection, I am trying a new strategy for waiting—and for a good deal else that bugs me—which is this: observing the world without distraction, and wishing others the love and happiness I want for myself."

"By staying behind, a leader can observe the dynamics of the team, understand each person’s challenges and ensure that no one is left behind."

"Rather than an emotion, scientists have called love an attitude, a script, or a motivation or drive—like craving, lust, hunger, and thirst."

"If you are a stomach gripper, this is a crucial exercise for your nervous system. Most belly breathing exercises tell you to push your belly out when you inhale. That description never worked for me — I didn’t understand it mechanically — so I tended to just ignore any talk of belly breathing. And then I started doing clinical somatics, and I learned from experience that belly breathing is hugely important for stress relief."

"We know, "no idea is a bad idea," but brainstorming is often unsuccessful. These prompts actually work. They could even lead to a unique business model."

"Hi there, it’s Adam from Untools, Most people bury the lead in their business communication. They save the important bit for the end, forcing readers to wade..."

"97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. One survey revealed that “39% of jobs in the legal sector could be automated in the next 10 years. Separate research has concluded that accountants have a 95% chance of losing their jobs to automation in the future.”"

"Communicate more effectively than your competition."

"They discovered that the sweet spot for headline length is between 12-18 words."

"Every time you solve a problem you create one” — Kevin Slavin (6)“In a system there are no side effects, only effects” James Paine, MIT (7)"

"Of the four steps in Brewer’s RAIN approach, the second — allowing — is perhaps the most critical. Allowing an experience to wash over you sounds disarmingly easy because it doesn’t require you to do anything. But that’s exactly the point. It’s difficult because you’re forced to do nothing despite the urge to act."