“Each month I selected a new theme: something I would add or subtract to my life for the entire month. I invested each full month to explore and analyze the theme, and my relationship to it.”
Craftsmanship Is the Alternative to the Four-Hour Work Week
“To think of a business as a series of hacks and transactional relationships, you’ll never amass the expertise that your future self and future businesses need to succeed.”
How Facebook Is Killing Comedy
“We’re used to a world where if you put something out there that’s good, people see it and share it. But that’s just not true in this world. Someone can make something really good, and just because of some weird algorithmic reasons, or if it’s not designed specifically for Facebook, it doesn’t do well. And then it becomes impossible to know what a good thing to make is anymore.”
What Teenagers Are Learning from Online Porn
“‘There’s nowhere else to learn about sex,’ the suburban boy told me. ‘And porn stars know what they are doing.’ His words reflect a paradox about sex and pornography in this country. Even as smartphones have made it easier for teenagers to watch porn, sex education in the United States — where abstinence-based sex education remains the norm — is meager.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
How To Create A Social Media Post 100% Of Your Followers Will Like
Ready for a challenge?
If you had to create a single social media post that would get liked by a higher percentage of your followers than anything you’ve ever posted before, what would you post?
Here’s what I’d recommend and how I figured it out.
Your Systems Are More Important Than Your Goals
“Goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.”
How to Give Life Meaning, According to Terminally Ill Children
“Be kind. Read more books. Spend time with your family. Crack jokes. Go to the beach. Hug your dog. Tell that special person you love them. These are the things these kids wished they could’ve done more. The rest is details.”
How to Use Game Theory to Win a Negotiation
“If you’re trying to win in a negotiation you want to try and find ways to make it so that you are more patient than the other person — that is you have less to lose from letting the negotiation drag out than does the person you’re negotiating with.”
A Great Reason to Give Huge Tips
“If you want to send a message it has to be meaningful. It can’t be some half step.”