There is a scene in the movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. At the beginning, in the woods, Robert Ford, played by Casey Affleck, illustrates this phenomenon. He thinks t...
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
The market was inherently unpredictable and often vicious—
The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself.
Stillness is what aims the archer’s arrow. It inspires new ideas. It sharpens perspective and illuminates connections.
Sherman had a good rule he tried to observe. Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe,
Shaking off the bad stuff as it happens and soldiering on—staring straight ahead as though nothing has happened.
Research shows that while goal visualization is important, after a certain point our mind begins to confuse it with actual progress. The same goes for verbalization. Even
Remember, zealot is just a nice way to say crazy person.
Product Market Fit is a feeling backed with data and information.
No harshness, no deprivation, no toil should interfere with our empathy toward others.
Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate. —SENECA, OEDIPUS, 992
Let’s make one thing clear: we never earn the right to be greedy or to pursue our interests at the expense of everyone else. To think otherwise is not only egotistical, it’s counterproductive.
Letters used to be signed Deo volente—God willing. Because who knew what would happen?
It’s far better that we become pragmatic and adaptable—able to do what we need to do anywhere, anytime. The place to do your work, to live the good life, is here.
It's not with ideas, my dear Degas, that one makes verse. It's with words.- the poet Mallarmé to Degas
It is said of the Jews, deprived of a stable homeland for so long, their temples destroyed, and their communities in the Diaspora, that they were forced to rebuild not physically but within
If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters—don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself. —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION,...
If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet
I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. —JOSEPH CONRAD