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The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress

Highlighted on April 3rd, 2022 from https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/

The housing theory of everything Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity...

Atlantis on the Hudson, Part 2: The Social Technologies of New York’s Future | Maximum New York

Highlighted on April 3rd, 2022 from https://maximumnewyork.com/the-social-technologies-of-new-yorks-future

Maximum New York About · School · Posts · Follow · Support Atlantis on the Hudson, Part 2: The Social Technologies of New York's Future Mar 4...

Atlantis on the Hudson, Part 1: Our Pre-Technological Politics | Maximum New York

Highlighted on April 3rd, 2022 from https://maximumnewyork.com/atlantis-on-the-hudson#fn:6

Maximum New York About · School · Posts · Follow · Support Atlantis on the Hudson, Part 1: Our Pre-Technological Politics New Yorkers lack the...

0261 – Solve For Adoption (Consider Esperanto) - 1,000,000 words by @visakanv

Highlighted on April 1st, 2022 from http://visakanv.com/1000/0261-esperanto-marketing-and-solving-for-adoption/

1,000,000 words by @visakanv 1,000 word vomits of 1,000 words each. SitemapStart Here Word Vomit 02...

No Mistakes – Idyllic Decay, Death is Grime

Highlighted on March 22nd, 2022 from https://narrativemancy.com/2022/03/19/no-mistakes/?fbclid=IwAR3CCQHWpGHLqx0hVCu9MLVApU8vZiXjQOsNgtmZfXpOqGBTqZJTe2sz4pk

Skip to content Idyllic Decay, Death is Grime Marie's blog IG No Mistakes  mesolud...

Taking the Further Pledge - by Aaron Mayer - On the Edge

Highlighted on March 22nd, 2022 from https://mayer.substack.com/p/taking-the-further-pledge?fbclid=IwAR1jpyU5CuozzugayvhFAiLle0noQo54iJGunJPOTJynwV_O1e_z5azbqZM&s=r

Taking the Further PledgeWhy I’m donating everything I earn beyond $70,000 for the rest of my lifeAaron Mayer2 hr ago1 In June of 2017, I publicly pledged to donate 10% of my income to charity.I made this pledge through Giving What We Can, an organizat...

If— by Rudyard Kipling | Poetry Foundation

Highlighted on March 22nd, 2022 from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

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The case for opsimaths. Maybe late bloomers aren't so late

Highlighted on March 11th, 2022 from https://commonreader.substack.com/p/the-case-for-opsimaths-maybe-late?s=r

The case for opsimaths. Maybe late bloomers aren't so lateLate bloomers and lifelong learnersHenry OliverFeb 15, 2021179 In 1953, when he was 45 and had been working at the National Trust for twelve years, saving country houses that would otherwise hav...

How be productive before your baby turns one - EA Forum

Highlighted on February 25th, 2022 from https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xocdNsa8At3bmQKm3/how-be-productive-before-your-baby-turns-one?fbclid=IwAR18FBDBM2JqgNWglVlneQK1sga0SSaxy95Bv-RR9oaqRhZqgazoNaEPIOU

How be productive before your baby turns one by ruthgrace26 min read24th Feb 20223 comments 37ParentingFrontpageHow be productive before your baby turns one what is the point of having kids setting expectations what's worked for me Tracking sleep Insom...

Mental Frames to Get Over Entrepreneurial Anxiety and Depression

Highlighted on February 9th, 2022 from https://amasad.me/framing

Amjad Masad Mental Frames to Get Over Entrepreneurial Anxiety and Depression Thu Aug 31 2017 Would you accept a gamble t...

How We Work

Highlighted on February 8th, 2022 from https://blog.railway.app/p/how-we-work?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Go to RailwayHow We WorkMay 28, 2021 • Jake CooperIn a slight deviation of our regular content, and setting tone for a future direction of the blog, we're going to be talking about something a bit different today; how Railway works.Now, this isn't an e...

Wherein I pay Aella for sex, and we just chat instead*

Highlighted on January 20th, 2022 from https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/wherein-i-pay-aella-for-sex-and-we?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Wherein I pay Aella for sex, and we just chat instead*On sex work, dominating OnlyFans, and the digestive benefits of eating someone else's poopAntonio García MartínezJan 18915*I didn’t actually end up paying her for sex, though when I DM’ed her at 3AM...

You Should Probably Be More Extroverted - by Sasha Chapin

Highlighted on January 18th, 2022 from https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/you-should-probably-be-more-extroverted

Sasha's 'Newsletter'Sign inAboutArchiveHelpprigoose@stoopinbox.comNot subscribedSign outYou Should Probably Be More ExtrovertedSasha ChapinJan 5, 2021339 I used to think that my primary talent was verbal ability. That was dumb and I was wrong. Though I...

How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers | Compass Rose

Highlighted on January 9th, 2022 from http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/how-to-interpret-vitamin-d-dosage-using-numbers/

Compass Rose The territory is a map of the map. Skip to content HomeAbout Hug How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers 2 Replies I am sick of pe...

Three ways of thinking about covid - by Curtis Yarvin

Highlighted on January 8th, 2022 from https://graymirror.substack.com/p/three-ways-of-thinking-about-covid

Three ways of thinking about covid"If the flag is green, Paddy is in the saddle."Aug 6, 2021129131 There is no subject that loses as many Gray Mirror subscribers as covid. Almost no one agrees with my covid take—or at least, there is no organized herd ...

Commercial open-source software

Highlighted on January 4th, 2022 from https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Commercial_open-source_software

Andyʼs working notesAbout these notesCommercial open-source softwareCompanies in this category develop open-source software but pursue commercial business models around additional features, enterprise support and services, professional services, etc.Se...

We Need a New Science of Progress - The Atlantic

Highlighted on December 22nd, 2021 from https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/

Skip to contentSite NavigationPopularLatest Sign InSubscribe WRITING WORTH READING. IDEAS WORTH SHARING. A GIFT WORTH GIVING. ScienceWe Need a New Science of Progress Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better. By Patrick Collison ...

The entire Bay Area has become a large declining tech company

Highlighted on December 22nd, 2021 from http://www.yared.com/2021/12/the-entire-bay-area-has-become-large.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Peter Yared's Musings Hi, I'm the founder & CEO at InCountry. This site contains the articles I've written for TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET, BusinessWeek, InfoWorld and other pubs. Previously, I was the CTO/CIO at CBS Interactive and the founder o...

The importance trap – Brian Lui's blog

Highlighted on December 22nd, 2021 from https://brianlui.dog/2021/08/18/the-importance-trap/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Skip to content Brian Lui's blog What’s this? Now Books Contact The importance trap  Bria...

Rest in motion

Highlighted on December 12th, 2021 from https://mindingourway.com/rest-in-motion/

Home RSS Rest in motion 28 June 2015 Many people seem to think the 'good' state of being, the 'ground' state, is a relaxed state, a state wi...

"Should" considered harmful

Highlighted on December 12th, 2021 from https://mindingourway.com/should-considered-harmful/

Home RSS "Should" considered harmful 25 May 2015 My last few posts have been aimed at addressing what I call the "listless guilt," the vague...

Frame Control - LessWrong

Highlighted on November 28th, 2021 from https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bQ6zpf6buWgP939ov/frame-control

LESSWRONG Frame Control by Aella27th Nov 202144 comments 183Social & Cultural DynamicsSocial RealityFramesWorld ModelingPersonal Blog Crossposted from my blogWhen I mention my dad’s abuse, I mention salient things - physical pain, insults, and contro...

Squad Wealth

Highlighted on November 18th, 2021 from https://otherinter.net/research/squad-wealth/

Squad Wealth Authors Sam Hart, Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti Published August 19 2020 SQUA...

Joking Around With Strangers – Tynan.com

Highlighted on November 14th, 2021 from https://tynan.com/joking/

Skip to content Tynan.com About Joking Around With Strangers I can’t imagine that working at a car rental place is much fun. Especially if you’re working in Las ...

Maintaining a Clear and Positive Mindset – Tynan.com

Highlighted on November 14th, 2021 from https://tynan.com/positivemind/

Skip to content Tynan.com About Maintaining a Clear and Positive Mindset My sister told me about a date she went on recently. When she very politely said that sh...

Not Being Angry Ever – Tynan.com

Highlighted on November 14th, 2021 from https://tynan.com/not-being-angry-ever/

Skip to content Tynan.com About Not Being Angry Ever I’m writing about this because we sidetracked a post in the forums and I thought it was interesting to warra...

Making friends with the internet | miraculous cake

Highlighted on October 23rd, 2021 from https://lwprogramming.github.io/posts/Making_friends_with_the_internet

miraculous cake About meSubscribe Making friends with the internet Give me either the loneliness of the Finnish forests or of a big city. - Jean Sibelius, ...

take deep breaths - @visakanv's blog

Highlighted on September 30th, 2021 from http://www.visakanv.com/blog/breathwork/

take deep breaths The following post is an ongoing-work-in-progress. The goal is for me to make sense of my learnings about breath and breathwork. Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. I am not even some kind of athlete or knowledgeable person. I...

Devon Zuegel: Cities as a Superpower - David Perell

Highlighted on September 25th, 2021 from https://perell.com/podcast/devon-zuegel/

Devon Zuegel: Cities as a Superpower – North Star Podcast Listen Here: iTunes | Overcast | PlayerFM Keep Up with the North Star Podcast Here My guest today is Devon Zuegel, a writer o...

The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins (#413) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

Highlighted on September 25th, 2021 from https://tim.blog/2020/05/09/tyler-cowen-transcript/

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Tim FerrissThe Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins (#413) Leave a comment Topics: CategoriesThe Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts Share this:FacebookTwitt...

How to Love Living in Las Vegas – Tynan.com

Highlighted on September 24th, 2021 from https://tynan.com/viva/

How to Love Living in Las Vegas I absolutely love living in Las Vegas. Even if cost was not a factor, I would choose living there over any other city in the world (ok, I’d have to think hard about Tokyo). This generally...

"What will you do to stay weird?" - Marginal REVOLUTION

Highlighted on September 19th, 2021 from https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/12/what-will-you-do-to-stay-weird.html

"What will you do to stay weird?" by Tyler Cowen December 24, 2019 at 12:53 am in Education ...

The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins (#413) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

Highlighted on September 14th, 2021 from https://tim.blog/2020/05/09/tyler-cowen-transcript/

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Tim FerrissThe Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins (#413) Leave a comment Topics: CategoriesThe Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts Share this:FacebookTwitt...

How I practice at what I do - Marginal REVOLUTION

Highlighted on September 14th, 2021 from https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/07/how-i-practice-at-what-i-do.html

How I practice at what I do by Tyler Cowen July 13, 2019 at 1:08 am Following up on my post a few days ago, about the value of deliberate practice for knowledge workers,...

My musical self-education - Marginal REVOLUTION

Highlighted on September 14th, 2021 from https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/08/musical-self-education.html

My musical self-education by Tyler Cowen August 17, 2018 at 12:57 am in Education, Music ...

Welcome to the Spontaneous Internet - by Greg Isenberg - Late Checkout - a Substack by Greg Isenberg

Highlighted on September 14th, 2021 from https://latecheckout.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-spontaneous-internet

Welcome to the Spontaneous InternetGreg IsenbergFeb 18 47 8 Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the internet is getting more spontaneous. Posting, liking, commenting and messaging are all slowly morphing into hanging out online. This is changing how w...

You Get What You Give — Peter Santenello

Highlighted on September 12th, 2021 from https://petersantenello.com/blog/2018/04/03/you-get-what-you-give

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2020 Year-End Review | David Vargas

Highlighted on February 15th, 2021 from https://davidvargas.me/blog/2020-year-end-review/

2020 Year-End ReviewJanuary 04, 2021Over the last two years, I’ve written an annual review as a journal that my friends had access to in earlier iterations of Longwave. I enjoy looking back on my ones from previous years as a form of time travel. I get...

What is the past, present, and future of distributed friendships? | Jason Benn

Highlighted on February 11th, 2021 from https://jasonbenn.com/post/what-is-the-past-present-and-future-of-distributed-friendships

What is the past, present, and future of distributed friendships? Some histories most famous friendships were distributed in the past, which we know because we have histories of their correspondence. Ben Fra...

Year 1 Learnings — Celine Halioua

Highlighted on February 8th, 2021 from https://www.celinehh.com/year-1-learnings

Year 1 Startup LearningsOct 27, 2020I incorporated Celevity in October 2019. Since then, we’ve gone from a deck and a provisional patent to a team of 12+, a lead drug, and a head brimming with new knowledge and experiences. These are some of my biggest...

What I Wanted to Build: Can Corporations Bring Socialized Healthcare to the United States? | by Celine Halioua | Medium

Highlighted on February 8th, 2021 from https://medium.com/@celinehh/what-i-wanted-to-build-can-corporations-bring-socialized-healthcare-to-the-united-states-d86b8d429161

What I Wanted to Build: Can Corporations Bring Socialized Healthcare to the United States? Celine HaliouaMar 29, 2019·6 min readLast autumn, whatever is in the water in Silicon Valley finally reached threshold systemic concentration and I tried to laun...

Reflections on Being a Female Founder - Tracy writes

Highlighted on February 6th, 2021 from https://tracy.posthaven.com/reflections-on-being-a-female-founder

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The Top Idea in Your Mind

Highlighted on February 3rd, 2021 from http://paulgraham.com/top.html

Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. July 2010I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I'd thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I'd go further: now I'd sa...

commitment as a defense against the void - bookbear express

Highlighted on February 2nd, 2021 from https://ava.substack.com/p/commitment-as-a-defense-against-the

commitment as a defense against the voidAva1 hr ago 3 There’s too much going on all at once: things to do, things to buy, friends to compare yourself to. People getting new jobs, getting engaged, getting married, having children, moving to Hawaii, movi...

The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class – alexdanco.com

Highlighted on January 24th, 2021 from https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/

The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class 7 hours ago I’m happy to finally share a thesis I’ve been chewing on for a little while. I call it The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class, which states: The higher you ascend the ladder of the Educated G...

Anti-Network Effects - Breaking Smart

Highlighted on January 24th, 2021 from https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/anti-network-effects

Breaking SmartAboutArchiveHelpMy Accountpriyalghose@gmail.comNot subscribedSign outAnti-Network EffectsVenkatesh RaoJan 22 1 0:06 -14:48In this first 2021 episode of the Breaking Smart podcast, I want to talk about something that’s been on my min...

Still Alive - Astral Codex Ten

Highlighted on January 22nd, 2021 from https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive

Still AliveYou just keep on trying till you run out of cake4 hr ago 31 101 I.This was a triumphI'm making a note here, huge successNo, seriously, it was awful. I deleted my blog of 1,557 posts. I wanted to protect my privacy, but I ended up with artic...

How to Be Secure - Tynan

Highlighted on January 18th, 2021 from https://tynan.com/security

How to Be Secure  Tynan 2 months ago 17 8162 1 Why are some people secure while others aren't? Is it because they deserve ...

“There Are Too Many Entrenched Interests” - Out-Of-Pocket

Highlighted on January 18th, 2021 from https://outofpocket.health/p/there-are-too-many-entrenched-interests

"There Are Too Many Entrenched Interests"The Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Part 3Nikhil KrishnanMay 18, 2020 11 First, we talked about paying patients and building new EMRs. Then, we talked about the self-insured employer route.Those posts make me se...

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle | by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | INCERTO | Medium

Highlighted on January 18th, 2021 from https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle Nassim Nicholas TalebJan 1, 2019 · 13 min read For some technical backbone to this piece,see here.(Revised draft: added comments on sinister country profiling. Also 1) Used the same data as researchers to find...

How To Make Friends 2.0. We have a loneliness problem as a… | by Nikhil Krishnan | Noteworthy - The Journal Blog

Highlighted on January 17th, 2021 from https://blog.usejournal.com/how-to-make-friends-2-0-f49b33a85277

How To Make Friends 2.0 Nikhil KrishnanFollowJul 17, 2019 · 9 min read We have a loneliness problem as a society.Cigna conducted a survey on 20,000 of their members.54% said they always or sometimes feel that no one knows them well.56% reported they ...

The Innovator's Dilemma (why big companies don't innovate)

Highlighted on January 17th, 2021 from https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2336935537

Gleb Posobin's Reviews > The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars ...

How to Get From a 7 to a 10 – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on January 10th, 2021 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/07/how-to-get-from-a-7-to-a-10/

How to Get From a 7 to a 10 July 5, 2005 A frequent question I ask when trying to improve some area of my life is: If I were to rate this area’s current performance on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the worst imaginable and 10 being the best...

My 12 Biggest Lessons Learned in 2020 - Forte Labs

Highlighted on December 23rd, 2020 from https://fortelabs.co/blog/my-12-biggest-lessons-learned-in-2020/

My 12 Biggest Lessons Learned in 2020 Posted in Free, Personal growth On December 21, 2020 ...

The only real validation is people paying for your product

Highlighted on December 20th, 2020 from https://levels.io/idea-validation/

Aug 28, 2019 The only real validation is people paying for your product Entrepreneurship If you'd like to get an email when the next post is up: I still see people think...

On Envy and Hate (Part 1) - The Lindy Newsletter

Highlighted on December 15th, 2020 from https://paulskallas.substack.com/p/on-envy-and-hate-part-1

On Envy and Hate (Part 1)Human NaturePaul SkallasDec 13 22 Does anyone teach human nature anymore? I feel like we as a society have all decided to drop teaching this subject. We now export it to psychologists, writers for the New Yorker, poets and life...

Thinking Out Loud No. 30 - Thinking Out Loud

Highlighted on December 12th, 2020 from https://thinkingoutloud.substack.com/p/thinking-out-loud-no-30

Thinking Out Loud No. 302020 — within these four wallsMichael AshcroftOct 5 5 4 I’m not the person I was when 2020 started. I live alone in a one bedroom flat here in London. When I finish my work day, I close my work laptop and then… immediately open...

On Rewriting

Highlighted on December 8th, 2020 from https://ava.substack.com/p/on-redoing-things

on redoing thingsAva22 hr ago 10 1 Kevin Kelly: "To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just re-do it, re-do it, re-do it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them." Salter said the same thing, telling the Paris Review...

Idea Creation | Small Bets

Highlighted on December 3rd, 2020 from https://smallbets.circle.so/c/ama/idea-creation

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How might a “normal” week look for you? | Small Bets

Highlighted on December 3rd, 2020 from https://smallbets.circle.so/c/ama/how-might-a-normal-week-look-for-you

How might a "normal" week look for you? ZR ZR Zain Rizvi Software Engineer @ Google, Microsoft, Stripe. ZainRizvi.io ...

Happiness | Small Bets

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what do you think of the FIRE movement? | Small Bets

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Surviving disillusionment - Zero Credibility

Highlighted on December 1st, 2020 from https://www.spakhm.com/p/surviving-disillusionment

Surviving disillusionmentEngineers don't have a daily ritual that reminds us why we got into the field. Without a ritual, the drudgery creeps closer and the vision of the monastery recedes.Slava AkhmechetOct 26 18 In the past few weeks I wrote about co...

Envy - Zero Credibility

Highlighted on December 1st, 2020 from https://www.spakhm.com/p/envy

EnvyEnvy is a bad north star. Spend time with people who don't feel it. Avoid people who do. Pick a mission. Find the equivalent of practicing scales in your field, and do that.Slava AkhmechetNov 2 8 Silicon Valley runs on envy. Envy pervades every act...

The Emotional Pandemic. Something has been on my mind lately… | by Andrew Roberts | Medium

Highlighted on November 29th, 2020 from https://drewface.medium.com/f9784e111b82

The Emotional Pandemic Andrew Roberts·7 min read·DraftPhoto by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on UnsplashSomething has been on my mind lately that I just can’t shake. As the election comes to a peaceful close, and the virus reaches its peak, yet still remains fa...

Topographic theory of flaking | Devon's Site

Highlighted on November 20th, 2020 from https://devonzuegel.com/post/topographic-theory-of-flaking

Topographic theory of flaking August 16th, 2020 Natan Gesher s...

Re: Flaking | Devon's Site

Highlighted on November 20th, 2020 from https://devonzuegel.com/post/re-flaking

Re: Flaking February 13th, 2018 Dan Wang emailed me with some interesting addition...

RECONSIDER. About 12 years ago, I co-founded a… | by DHH | Signal v. Noise | Medium

Highlighted on November 17th, 2020 from https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/reconsider-41adf356857f

#WEBSUMMIT2015RECONSIDER DHHNov 4, 2015 · 12 min read About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp: A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly subscription.It took a part of some peop...

Playing Chess With Demons - The Stoa

Highlighted on November 15th, 2020 from https://thestoa.substack.com/p/playing-chess-with-demons

Playing Chess With DemonsPeter N LimbergOct 14 Tomorrow’s events:The Acid Left w/ Adam Ray Adkins. October 15th @ 12:00 PM ET. RSVP here.Shame Breakthrough Bootcamp w/ A.J. Bond. Every Thursday @ 6:00 PM ET. RSVP here. 60 mins.Disagreeing Well w/ Justi...

Great News: You’re Allowed To Have Only One Kid!

Highlighted on November 5th, 2020 from https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/09/10/great-news-youre-allowed-to-have-only-one-kid/

Sep 10, 2014 459 comments Great News: You’re Allowed To Have Only One Kid! It was a black and frosty night, sometime in the dead of winter 2007. I was in the rocking chair holding my baby son, who was about one year old at the time. I was ...

on not losing my nerve - bookbear express

Highlighted on November 5th, 2020 from https://ava.substack.com/p/on-not-losing-my-nerve

on not losing my nerveAva33 min 6 I’ve been afraid of writing for a long time. I think we sometimes shy away from giving 100% to the things we care about most because we know failure there hurts more than anywhere else. For instance I’m generally good ...

Productivity is like a heat engine | Devon's Site

Highlighted on November 4th, 2020 from https://devonzuegel.com/post/productivity-is-like-a-heat-engine

Productivity is like a heat engine August 28th, 2018 When I started learning about thermodynamics, I was shocked to learn ...

Your Wall of Heroes — David Perell

Highlighted on November 1st, 2020 from https://www.perell.com/blog/wall-of-heroes

Your Wall of Heroes Great performers have a wall of heroes. Figures who set their standard of excellence. They provide energy in moments of sloth, direction in moments of confusion, and most of all, inspirat...

The Equity Equation

Highlighted on October 30th, 2020 from http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html

July 2007An investor wants to give you money for a certain percentage of your startup. Should you take it? You're about to hire your first employee. How much stock should you give him?These are some of the hardest questions founders face. And yet b...

16 Things To Know About The 409A Valuation - Andreessen Horowitz

Highlighted on October 29th, 2020 from https://a16z.com/2020/02/13/16-things-about-the-409a-valuation/

16 Things To Know About The 409A Valuation by Caroline Moon policy & regulation • apparently all our s...

A potential employee’s guide to Silicon Valley startup equity

Highlighted on October 28th, 2020 from http://jamie-wong.com/post/valley-equity/

A potential employee’s guide to Silicon Valley startup equity You’re done your interviews, and you have a few Silicon Valley startup offers in-hand. The offers have a bunch of numbers and you’re not sure how to put them all together. You’re bomba...

Fully-Diluted Capitalization · Legal Concepts for Founders

Highlighted on October 28th, 2020 from https://handbook.clerky.com/fundraising/fully-diluted-capitalization

Fully-Diluted Capitalization When fundraising, the main topic of negotiation is often the pre-money valuation used to calculate the price of stock issued to investors. Pre-money valuation refers to the valuation of the startup prior to the fundraising...

Startup employees don't earn more - 80,000 Hours

Highlighted on October 28th, 2020 from https://80000hours.org/2015/10/startup-salaries-and-equity-compensation/

Startup employees don’t earn more By Ben West · Published October 7th, 2015 LikeTweetShareEmailPrint Image by Sebastiaan ter Burg. License: CC-BY-SA 2.0 Since the average startup founder who makes it to Series A earns more than a large compa...

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued | Kalzumeus Software

Highlighted on October 28th, 2020 from https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued [Editor’s note: At nearly 7,000 words, you probably don’t want to try reading this on an iDevice. Bookmark it and come back later.] Imagine something a wee bit outside your comf...

Honoring Your Hidden Goals – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 25th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/09/honoring-your-hidden-goals/

Honoring Your Hidden GoalsSeptember 29, 2020 When you look back on the past calendar quarter, consider what you actually got done, even if your actions and behaviors didn’t align well with your stated goals. Your time went somewhere, so where did ...

Sliding Bad Habits Into Good Ones – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 25th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/09/sliding-bad-habits-into-good-ones/

Sliding Bad Habits Into Good OnesSeptember 30, 2020 As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on Honoring Your Hidden Goals, consider that hidden goals are similar to hidden habits. In each case the hidden aspect means that some part of you is finding a ...

End the Vegan Tax – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 25th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/10/end-the-vegan-tax/

End the Vegan TaxOctober 5, 2020 Vegans are typically well aware of the vegan tax – the extra money we pay to order a latte, a pizza, or some other item made vegan instead of with animal products. Substitute plant-based milk for dairy or vegan che...

Be a Voter – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 25th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/10/be-a-voter/

Priya Notes: - new identities I want to wear: operator, entrepreneur Be a VoterOctober 10, 2020 Which is better? To encourage someone to vote or to encourage them to be a voter?If you want the person to actually vote, encourage them to be a voter. It’...

Refining Your Personal Growth Palate – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 25th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/09/refining-your-personal-growth-palate/

Priya Notes: - total honesty as an outdated lens? - what results am I not quite reaching? Refining Your Personal Growth PalateSeptember 20, 2020 When you’re on a path of personal growth, it’s to be expected that you’ll eventually outgrow some lenses ...

The Alien Mindset of a Fixed Income – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 25th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/09/the-alien-mindset-of-a-fixed-income/

The Alien Mindset of a Fixed IncomeSeptember 21, 2020 One really weird mindset I notice among certain readers looks something like this:My wife and I are both teachers. Our combined salary is $___. And in about five years, we’ll be earning $___. S...

Studying Your Actual Behaviors – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 25th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/09/studying-your-actual-behaviors/

Studying Your Actual BehaviorsSeptember 22, 2020 Observing your behaviors and responses like a scientist observing apes in the jungle can be useful for spotting opportunities for growth and improvement.While it’s tempting to see yourself as a cons...

The Point of No Return – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 25th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/10/the-point-of-no-return/

The Point of No ReturnOctober 24, 2020 In Act 1 of a story with a three-act structure, the protagonist often reaches the point of no return. Their old world crumbles, and they stumble forward into a new world, often reactively at first. There is n...

Don’t start a business until people are asking you to | Derek Sivers

Highlighted on October 20th, 2020 from https://sive.rs/asking

from the book "Hell Yeah or No": Don’t start a business until people are asking you to 2016-04-13 When you bake a cake, you need to do first things first. You need to get the ingredients before you turn on the oven. You need to bake it before you...

Be an extreme character. | Derek Sivers

Highlighted on October 20th, 2020 from https://sive.rs/evers

from the book "Your Music and People": Be an extreme character. 2018-02-28 This is both fun and considerate. When people say that a movie has a great character, they mean it was someone especially shocking, funny, or honest. To be a great entert...

Never wait. | Derek Sivers

Highlighted on October 20th, 2020 from https://sive.rs/neverwait

from the book "Your Music and People": Never wait. 2018-02-17 One of the top music industry lawyers in Los Angeles was speaking at a conference. She’s an expert in copyright law, so someone asked her advice on a licensing problem. They had recor...

Get personal. | Derek Sivers

Highlighted on October 20th, 2020 from https://sive.rs/gpers

from the book "Your Music and People": Get personal. 2018-02-14 Before I got into the music industry, I had an idea of what it would look like: Some powerful manager or agent calling me into his office to discuss the business of my music. Then I...

Pedestals prevent friendships. | Derek Sivers

Highlighted on October 20th, 2020 from https://sive.rs/pedestal

from the book "Your Music and People": Pedestals prevent friendships. 2018-02-13 I was a struggling musician, with big ambitions but not much success, when I went to a music industry conference in Las Vegas to promote my music. I was nervous, but...

Racism and Self-Interest – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 19th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/09/racism-and-self-interest/

Racism and Self-InterestSeptember 2, 2020 Last week I finished the book How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. It gave me a lot to ponder, especially the frame that racism stems from self-interest. There were some chapters sharing how racism l...

Advancing Your Goals and Your Processes – Steve Pavlina

Highlighted on October 19th, 2020 from https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/09/advancing-your-goals-and-your-processes/

Advancing Your Goals and Your ProcessesSeptember 26, 2020 As we’re coming to the end of the third quarter of 2020, how are you feeling about the progress you’ve made during the last three months? Are you satisfied or dissatisfied? Or do you have m...

Thread by @vgr: The older I get the more it sinks in that 90% of effectiveness is just taking a thing seriously enough. That translates to just wanting the…

Highlighted on October 18th, 2020 from https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1279532354499821568.html

The older I get the more it sinks in that 90% of effectiveness is just taking a thing seriously enough. That translates to just wanting the thing itself rather than adjacent things that may or may not happen as a side effect. Most things sort themselve...

Pocket - How to hire the best people you've ever worked with

Highlighted on October 5th, 2020 from https://app.getpocket.com/read/358303550

How to hire the best people you've ever worked withBy pmarchive.com •12 minView Original There are many aspects to hiring great people, and various people smarter than me have written extensively on the topic. So...

How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time - Valley Girl Newsletter

Highlighted on September 29th, 2020 from https://apoorvagovind.substack.com/p/how-to-waste-your-career-one-comfortable?r=9ajfy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a timeApoorva GovindSep 28 53 I recently saw this tweet asking people about their career's most expensive mistake. The most common one was people staying too long at their jobs and not switching sooner....

on trusting yourself - bookbear express

Highlighted on September 28th, 2020 from https://ava.substack.com/p/on-trusting-yourself

on trusting yourself Ava6 hr 16 I‘m drunk on the particular crispness in the air that emerges late in September. Fall: yellow aspen leaves, clean blue sky, goosebumps on my thighs as I walk naked from the shower to the bedroom for a change of clothes. ...

Your Time Scale - Tynan

Highlighted on September 28th, 2020 from https://tynan.com/scale

Your Time Scale  Tynan 6 hours ago 1 1855 13 We make hundreds or thousands of subconscious decisions each day, but just be...

Your Life is Driven by Network Effects

Highlighted on September 28th, 2020 from https://www.nfx.com/post/your-life-network-effects/

Your Life is Driven by Network Effects  Revealing the Unseen Forces That Guide Your Life by James Currier (@JamesCurrier). James is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm headquartered in San Francisco. The NFX...

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