Ben Horowitz: The Struggle
...You just want to hit snooze repeatedly and hide under the covers. The Struggle, however, is also where greatness is born...
...You just want to hit snooze repeatedly and hide under the covers. The Struggle, however, is also where greatness is born...
...Whether it’s the immensity of the Grand Canyon or the beauty of an intricate spider’s web, feeling awestruck is good for you. Here are 10 ways to get awed...
...We feel pressed for time due to our own psychology, not just the tyranny of the clock...
...Diversity of thought shouldn’t scare us; it should excite us. It removes blind spots and gives us more tools to solve problems...
...My rule is just, make a positive contribution every day. The question I ask myself at the end of the day is simply, Did I make a positive contribution to my writing today?...
...How do people across the world spend their time? How do daily activities differ across countries, and how do these differences matter for people’s lives?...
...Deducing what card you’ve picked is a well-known sleight. But performing a trick where your card is seamlessly buried requires so much advance preparation that it seems impossible...
...Listening is an everyday act, and perhaps art, that many of us neglect...
...Reasoning research suggests that people use more stringent criteria when they evaluate others' arguments than when they produce arguments themselves...
...To be cliched, the beginning and ends of the walks didn’t really matter, but the fun is what and who I found in between...
...What they all have in common is intent. Each requires trade-offs and is chosen with a purpose in mind...
...Our minds tend to create new stuff by piling on to what’s already there, a practice that narrows our thinking...
...Munger believes that by using a range of different models from many different disciplines—psychology, history, mathematics, physics, philosophy, biology, and so on—a person can use the combined output of the synthesis to produce something that has more value than the sum of its parts...
...This is a list of things you’re allowed to do that you thought you weren’t, or didn’t even know you could...
...This exercise is intended to help you put your life and the lives of the people you care about in perspective and to plan for the future to help you get the life you want...
...Networking isn’t easy, and if you’re a semi-introvert like me, it’s also not particularly fun. I even find the word “networking” a little cheesy...
...Iconic typography designer Paula Scher discusses her creative process, including the famous Citi logo. Interestingly, the idea came to her in seconds and that presented a problem for the client. They wanted to buy a process not an outcome....
...So many of us feel a scarcity of time: we feel rushed, like there’s not enough time to do everything, always behind, never feeling like we’re doing enough...
...It’s an easy thing to tell ourselves about compliance to any dominant system. But it’s incomplete...
...I started collecting rules that I read every morning. Each rule points to a personal story. These are reminders...