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2023 in review
2023 in review

“The first year of the rest of my life.”

“Being married is not particularly different than being engaged; I wake up every morning and go to bed every evening next to my best friend and favorite person in the world.”

·applied-cartography.com·
2023 in review
Charlie Munger & Social Theater
Charlie Munger & Social Theater
“‘It is remarkable how much long-term advantage we have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent,’ Munger once famously remarked.”
·om.co·
Charlie Munger & Social Theater
Yet Another Year in Review — Year 03.5
Yet Another Year in Review — Year 03.5

“While the first part of my career was me playing a sport on a team and then playing that sport as more of a free agent, I’m now in a period where I’m less interested in any specific sport. Instead, I’m excited to create games I want to play and enlist people I want to play with.”

“Does this feel like something I’m uniquely capable of?”

“Justin Duke phrases this question as "what am I willing to say no to in order to say yes to this?" I love this phrasing and will definitely borrow it in the future.”

“but I need to play the game that’s on the field, not the one that is in my head.”

“With an empty calendar, what am I drawn to? How do I want to spend my time?”

“Every time I open the app, it creates a daily note that’s titled YYYY.MM.DD.HH so that I never have to think about “where to take notes” or “what to call this.” I just open Obsidian and start writing.”

·behzod.com·
Yet Another Year in Review — Year 03.5
What I’ve learned so far from making a perfume company
What I’ve learned so far from making a perfume company

“It’s not clear why I didn’t think of this myself. Personal networking has been a huge force in my life, so I guess I thought of networking as a personal act, but there’s no reason you wouldn’t be able to hire someone else to network for you. And still, this is not something I’d put together before—that if there’s someone who seems unreachable, there might just be a fixed dollar amount, a few emails, and an NDA standing in your way.”

“This makes me appreciate one of the major drawbacks of consumer regulations: they apply “must be good at following complicated rules” as a selection pressure against enterprises.”

·sashachapin.substack.com·
What I’ve learned so far from making a perfume company
How to find focus
How to find focus
So if you feel lost or directionless, instead of making yourself pick a direction while lost at sea, consider drifting for a bit. Try things out. Open the unopened doors. Say yes to a few more things. And then when you feel the winds turning, set your sail to what feels right, indisputably and confidently right. It might take more time, and you might feel behind sometimes, but when you finally set off, you won’t need to look back.
·thesephist.com·
How to find focus
How to do impossible things
How to do impossible things
The easiest way to do something big may be to never notice just how big it is in the first place, and start chipping away.
I think this is a powerful and motivating problem-solving tactic: assume that a solution exists somewhere out there, and do things that will increase the chances of you stumbling into one such solution in your exploration through the space of possibilities.
·thesephist.com·
How to do impossible things
Time spent thinking deeply is not wasted time
Time spent thinking deeply is not wasted time
In this new and different kind of work, I need to spend more time thinking and less time making, and tweak my internal measurement of what feels like productive work. It’s gonna feel weird at first. But the things I make need to be the right things, and the best way to ensure that’s the case is to spend more time thinking about what I put on that queue.
·thesephist.com·
Time spent thinking deeply is not wasted time
Bet on the sprinters
Bet on the sprinters
This is how you build a truly valuable personal network – not just by knowing the people who are already successful, but more importantly, by helping the right people before anybody else will.
I’ve both experienced firsthand and heard from others that following this advice – working with the people who bet on you – is more valuable than simply working at the right company with the right brand name on the right project.
·thesephist.com·
Bet on the sprinters
Meet passkeys — WWDC22
Meet passkeys — WWDC22
It's time for a security upgrade: Learn how to add support for passkeys to create a quick and easy sign in experience for people, all...
·developer.apple.com·
Meet passkeys — WWDC22