The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon — The New Oil
Amazon is full-stop evil, no caveats, and is undeserving of your money on a moral and ethical level no matter what your values are.
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being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
This is what leads most of us to stop drawing. Not because we lack talent, but because we've developed the ability to judge before we've developed the ability to execute. We become connoisseurs of our own inadequacy
excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection, that mastery is built through befriending failure, that the path to creating one perfect thing runs directly through creating many imperfect things
When you imagine achieving something, the same neural reward circuits fire as when you actually achieve it. This creates what neuroscientists call "goal substitution"—your brain begins to treat planning as accomplishing.
TikTok shows you the perfect performance, never the thousand imperfect rehearsals. LinkedIn shows you the promotion announcement, never the years of unglamorous skill-building that made it possible
"Do-Learn" gave me permission to start before I was ready, fail early, fail often, to discover through making rather than thinking my way to readiness
This is the moment that separates the quantity group from the quality group: not at the beginning, but in the middle, when the work stops being fun and starts being work
Lifestyle mindfulness etc
Is this aging?
A drug that prevents age-related diseases needs to be safe enough for a healthy person to take. And, it needs to target a clinical endpoint that’s relevant to preventing age-related disease, but doesn’t take an unrealistically long time to test in trials
You People Keep Contradicting Yourselves! — Taylor G. Lunt
People will argue with an individual as if that individual is the spokesperson for a larger group. People will call someone a hypocrite not for contradicting themselves, but for contradicting other people
Man says ChatGPT sparked a 'spiritual awakening'. Wife says threatens marriage | Hacker News
Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off
Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes
A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up | Quanta Magazine
Windows 11 upgrade myth: Keep using your old computer
one sec app – Liberati dalla distrazione dei social media – a lungo termine.
