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Four Liberating Questions — The Work of Byron Katie
Byron Katie developed a process of self-inquiry which is called, The Work. It involves asking four simple questions about each belief that causes us pain.
The Ladder of Inference - How to Avoid Jumping to Conclusions
Use the Ladder of Inference to explore the seven steps we take in our thinking to get from a fact to a decision or action, and challenge them.
⚔️ optimize for survival - @visakanv's blog
The big lesson of survivor bias is that you should optimize for being a survivor. You can’t win if you lose – so learn to not lose. Most major failure conditions are avoidable with a little bit of foresight, planning, study and so on. Analyze failures and take conscientious steps…
solve for distribution
The following are a set of notes from my tweets. I may eventually flesh this out into some sort of coherent blogpost. Some preamble: “solve for distribution” is a phrase I came up…
💬 practice good reply game - @visakanv's blog
There is an art to replying and commenting, and probably like 60-70% of people I’ve seen on the internet fail at it. The important thing is not to speak your mind, but to “support” the OP. You can support them by disagreeing well & you can “mis-support” them by agreeing…
do 100 things - @visakanv's blog
“Do 100 Thing” is a phrase I came up with when riffing around the idea of being prolific, making lots of stuff. It’s obviously not an original idea – Nietzsche suggested it, /r/thexeffect could be thought of as “do 49 thing”. I was also influenced by the parable of the…
In the Night Kitchen
Maurice Sendak’s Banned, Burned Book.
I don’t write for children. I write. And somebody says, “That’s for children.”— Maurice Sendak, 2012
Interview with a 75-Year-Old Sober Person: Ray Cocks
"I feel the person I was is someone I know intimately but isn’t me now. The monster lies dormant, though, and could be very easily awakened."
Being patient with problems
Problems are typically richer than our preconceived notions about how to solve them.
The Truth is Never Pure
And rarely simple
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Nothing To Be Done
6 Played-Out Ideas that Block New Visions for Society
I Would Spend 55 Minutes Defining the Problem and then Five Minutes Solving It – Quote Investigator® - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/22/solve/
The cult of Obsidian: Why people are obsessed with the note-taking app
Obsidian, the indie darling of notetaking apps, rejects everything you know about modern software. And it's working.
The truth about the ‘marriageability gap’
Stop telling women to marry 'down'
How to light the dark months
A manifesto for winter light
on the importance of noticing things as a writer
plus animal blessings for thanksgiving
When Do You Feel Most Creative? Why Ideas Bloom at Bedtime
Schedule time for mind wandering
Occasional Gravitas
Into the void
Why do we stop playing?
I’ve been in Japan for the past two weeks relaxing, eating, walking and — yes — playing. I haven’t been worrying about work or the kids or my li…
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CASEY NEISTAT: THE WORLD'S BEST VLOGGER
How Casey Neistat mastered video and took over the vlogging scene..
Conviction
The unreasonable benefits of taking action on what you believe
Fake It ’Til You Fake It
Since Google’s introduction of its Pixel 8 phones earlier this month, it has been interesting and a little amusing to me to read the reactions to its image manipulation tools. It feels like we have been asking the same questions every year — questions like what is a photograph, anyway?, and has technology gone too […]
How To Actually Grow On Social Media (What They Don't Tell You) - Dan Koe
Everyone has tried and failed at growing an account on social media. Here's literally everything you need to know. Don't overcomplicate this.
Taming my information consumption
Is it futile to tame the deluge of information? Well, I’m trying anyway by simplifying, streamlining and yes, deleting stuff.
THE NOVEL AWAKENS
Here we go... again...
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How Linear builds product. “Decisions are based on taste and opinions” ✨💯