The researchers found that while sadness is an extreme emotion, it is a wholly unviral one. Sadness, like what one might feel to see a stray dog shivering for warmth or a homeless man begging for mone...
The reason subscription (and RSS) was abandoned was because in a subscription economy the users are in control. In the on-off model, the competition might be more vicious, but its on the terms of the...
The prize and spoils no longer go to the person who makes it to market first. They go to the person who makes it to Product Market Fit first.
The person is free who lives as they wish, neither compelled, nor hindered, nor limited—whose choices aren’t hampered, whose desires succeed, and who don’t fall into what repels them. Who wishes to li...
The more time kids spend online, studies show, the worse their grades are. According to Nielson, active social networkers are 26 percent more likely to give their opinion on politics and current event...
The line from the Obamas was When they go low, we go high. It’s a dignified and impressive mantra, if only because for the most part, whether you liked them or not, it’s hard to deny that they followe...
The job of a journalist would be unbearable if one was always to put oneself in the shoes of a subject.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD FEYNMAN M
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. — RICHARD FEYNMAN
The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.
The essayist and investor Paul Graham, a peer and rival of Peter Thiel’s, has charted the trajectory of a start-up, with all its ups and downs. After the initial bump of media attention, the rush of e...
The company’s most effective marketing tactic (besides making a great product) would never have been conceived or attempted by a pure marketing team. Instead, the engineers coded a set of tools that m...
The Count of Monte Cristo would put it better: What a fool I was not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself! Ah, but what dangerous business this is. This artificial hardenin...
That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, Montaigne had inscribed on the beam of his ceiling.
Some things are in our control, while others are not. We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our own doing. We don’t control our body, property, reputation, po...
Some companies like Airbnb and Instragram spend a long time trying new iterations until they achieve what growth hackers call Product Market Fit (PMF);
Show me that the good life doesn’t consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible—no, entirely too common—for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little. —SENECA, MORAL...
Show me someone sick and happy, in danger and happy, dying and happy, exiled and happy, disgraced and happy. Show me! By God, how much I’d like to see a Stoic. But since you can’t show me someone that...
Self-control is a difficult thing, no question. Which is why a popular trick from dieting might be helpful. Some diets allow a cheat day—one day per week in which dieters can eat anything and everythi...
See things for what they are. Do what we can. Endure and bear what we must. What blocked the path now is a path. What once impeded action advances action. The Obstacle is the Way.