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And it’s not to be a generalist.

If you’ve ever felt like modern social networks only show a cardboard-cutout version of yourself, it might be time to make your personal changelog.

In a paper published last month in the journal Nature (summary), a group of scientists from the University of Virginia reported on a series of experiments designed to assess how we solve problems. When presented with a challenging scenario, humans cannot evaluate every possible solution, so we instead deploy heuristics to prune this search space down […]

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C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Frau V. Dear Frau V., 15 December 1933 Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live. One lives as one can. There is no sing…

You can found an institution, or you can inherit it.

Trends: An Inside Look at How 7-Figure Newsletters Make Money. Presented by: Ethan Brooks Senior Analyst, and Lead Researcher for Guides

Honoring the reader’s time and attention.

The “writer brain” helps content marketers in the early part of their career, but, left unchecked, it hinders them in the latter stages.

How to play the game of life for long-term rewards

Narrative nonfiction writers who have written books: What one thing do you wish you'd known when you started working on your first book? What do you wish you'd done differently?

K guys I need all your book writing advice. Like, all of it. You may think “we’ll surely she knows this” I don’t I am dumb as rocks, help me

A trove of quotes on the great jazz musician's composing process

How founders got their first 1000 customers

It's worse than a board of advisors. The entire idea of burning ETH to change the monetary policy was proposed by Ethereum's founder Vitalik Buterin back in 2018 to pump ETH's price (and his premine). https://t.co/TNzSfIUKBn pic.twitter.com/5E3lOhMpgT— grubles (@notgrubles) May 2, 2021

What I learnt from art history and art

Creators are often told that consistency is a key virtue. But that’s not the whole story.

Real-world stories from 12 online writers on how they got their first 1,000 subscribers.

How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning

Unhappy people fail to recognize what matters, instead becoming overly focused on what they believe is missing from their existence.

I have another birthday, and another bunch of unsolicited advice.    • That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it. • If you have any doubt at all

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 7 mins One Sentence Summary : it’s not optimal to be one way all the time, try to figure out what mode best suits each set of circumstances!  “Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit t

In a sermon delivered at the height of World War Two, a period awash in distraction and despair, C.S. Lewis delivered a powerful claim about the cultivation of a deep life: “We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If […]

I have made notes when reporting news, interviewing people, or drafting outlines for most of my life. In the early days, it was shorthand. Later, it became a weird blend of English, symbols, and ol…

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Listening increases the value and impact of your words. “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” Stephen R. Covey Not listening: Waiting-listening:…

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