“How would we feel if one company controlled 92 percent of the global construction and engineering trade? Or 92 percent of the world’s paper and forest products? Would we worry that their power and influence had breached a reasonable threshold, or would we just think they were awesome innovators, as we do with Google?”
25 Principles of Adult Behavior
“Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.”
Convenience Is the Most Underestimated Force in the World Today
“Convenience seems to make our decisions for us, trumping what we like to imagine are our true preferences.”
10 Storytelling Hacks to Drive Word-Of-Mouth
“You’ll get far better results by making one strong point per well-told story. Because it’s not what you say, it’s what gets remembered that matters!”
The 100 Rules of Being a Writer
“The only way to build a sustainable audience is to show up. Over and over again. More often and longer than most people feel comfortable with.”
How to Get People to Do Things They Don’t Want to Do
“Providing a sense of progression is a form of feedback and is a key component of making unpleasant tasks more manageable.”
Why Our Preoccupation with Happiness Has Made Us Less Happy
“Happiness studies seem to be a way of convincing people they’re happy — or could be happy — even as they’re being dealt increasingly bad hands in terms of things like income inequality, educational affordability, and access to health care.”
Why Sitting Down Destroys You
“Fitness talks muscles before spine. Gymnasts focus on how they are moving their body — and they also just happen to have awesome posture and a really strong core.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.” — John Perry Barlow
What to Do When You Have Too Much to Do
“Pick one thing, and give it your focus. Yes, there are a lot of other things you can focus on. Yes, they’re stressing you out and making it hard to focus. But think about it this way: if you allow it all to be in your head all the time, that will always be your mode of being.”