40 Things About Life John Fawkes Would Tell Himself If He Could Travel Back in Time
“Judge yourself by your inputs in the short term, and your outputs in the long term.”
Author: EBenedict
Four Things to Know Before You Get Married
“Remember that every dollar you take from someone else is a dollar of influence they get to wield.”
How to Be More Hopeful
“Optimism changes subjective reality. The way we expect the world to be changes the way we see it. But it also changes objective reality. It acts as a self-fulf...
43 Ways to Defeat Distractions
“A lot of things happen before the work itself — from traffic, to interacting with other people, something might worry you, so it makes a lot of sense to take a...
19 Great Truths from a 90-Year-Old Grandmother
“There are thousands of people who live their entire lives on the default settings, never realizing they can customize everything.”
How Malcolm Gladwell Comes up with Ideas
“A book comes out and there’s a whole world out there that pounces on it and tells you why it’s bad. A podcast — there is no critical infrastructure. None. Zero...
How to Remove Retweets from Your Twitter Feed and What Happens When You Do
“Retweets make up more than a quarter of all tweets. When they disappeared, my feed had less punch-the-button outrage. Fewer mean screenshots of somebody saying...
You Are Not Your Customer
“They don’t think like you do. They don’t want what you want. They don’t believe what you believe. Their values are not your values. They don’t behave the way y...
How to Nurture Creativity in Your Kids
“Nurturing creativity is mostly about getting out of the way. I think it’s really hard to raise a creative child. It’s really easy to thwart a child’s creativit...
How to Use Twitter to Make You Smarter and Find Interesting People
“Twitter is the only social network where you don’t bring your existing friends/connections with you to start. Because of that, Twitter gives priority to people...