Someone recently published a book called Working On My Novel, filled with social media posts from writers who are clearly not working on their novels. Writing,
Some companies like Airbnb and Instragram spend a long time trying new iterations until they achieve what growth hackers call Product Market Fit (PMF); others find it right away. The end goal is the s...
Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.
See things for what they are. Do what we can. Endure and bear what we must.
Saban’s process is exclusively this—existing in the present, taking it one step at a time, not getting distracted by anything else. Not the other team, not the scoreboard or the crowd. The process is...
Reminding ourselves each day that we will die helps us treat our time as a gift. Someone on a deadline doesn’t indulge himself with attempts at the impossible, he doesn’t waste time complaining about...
Remind yourself how pointless it is to rage and fight and try to one-up those around you. Go and put yourself in touch with the infinite, and end your conscious separation from the world. Reconcile yo...
Remember: you’re a free agent. When someone points out a legitimate flaw in your belief or in your actions, they’re not criticizing you. They’re presenting a better alternative. Accept it!
Remember that today when you try to extend your reach outward—that it’s much better and more appropriately directed inward.
Reflect, then, he said, that your ancestors set up those trophies, not that you may gaze at them in wonder, but that you may also imitate the virtues of the men who set them up.
Receive feedback, maintain hunger, and chart a proper course in life.
Problems are rarely as bad as we think—or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think. It’s
Prefiero la disciplina del conocimiento a la anarquía de la ignorancia. Perseguimos el conocimiento de la misma forma en que un cerdo persigue trufas. —David Ogilvy
Placed in some situation that seems unchangeable and undeniably negative, we can turn it into a learning experience, a humbling experience, a chance to provide comfort to others.
Philosophy's true use - An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships.
Phil Libin, the cofounder of Evernote, has a quote I like to share with clients: People [who are] thinking about things other than making the best product never make the best product.
Peter thought he’d be greeted as a liberator, that Gawker was a scourge that once eliminated would allow for open, collaborative discussion. If anything, the opposite has happened. The candidate he he...
Overcoming obstacles is a discipline of three critical steps. It begins with how we look at our specific problems, our attitude or approach; then the energy and creativity with which we actively break...
Out of the right speaker in your inner ear will come the endless stream of self-aggrandizement, the recitation of one’s specialness, of how much more open and gifted and brilliant and knowing and misu...
Our soul is sometimes a king, and sometimes a tyrant. A king, by attending to what is honorable, protects the good health of the body in its care, and gives it no base or sordid command. But an uncont...