“To be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.” — Sam Altman
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
The One Way Money Can Buy Happiness
“Compared with the days when they bought stuff, most participants reported that their timesaving purchases were accompanied by an increased positive effect, a decreased negative effect and less time stress. And it didn’t matter how exceptional, useful or posh their material purchase was.”
Why You Should Consume Less And Create More
“Rather than reading over one hundred books in the following year, I wrote over three hundred blog posts and a book. Rather than watching YouTube videos, I shot over three hundred videos in the following two years.”
How To Harness The Power Of An Uncomfortable Silence
“More than product knowledge or anything else, silence is the hardest technique to learn. It’s against our instincts. We want to fill in the blanks.”
How To See What Successful People See
Yes or no. A or B. Pass or fail.
It’s easy to believe success is determined by a series of binary decisions we make.
But that’s a trap.
Successful people refuse to be limited to binary choices and recognize there are infinite options at our disposal if we have the patience, courage, and creativity to look for them.
In compiling ideas for my For The Interested newsletter each week I see time and again how people’s success is determined by their ability to see things others don’t.
Here are three examples of how people have done so by approaching their job, industry, and negotiations in a broader way.
Why You Should Bet On Things That Never Change
“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ That’s a very interesting question. I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two.”
How To Create Your Own Productivity System
“Productivity is about understanding what you really want to do, then building systems to make it work for you. The goal isn’t Inbox Zero. (Who gives a shit?) Your goal is to enable yourself to perform at your very best, every day, and over the course of weeks and months and years.”
How To Make Listeners Care About Your Story
“NPR One data shows us that in the opening seconds, listeners make decisions about whether to skip or pay attention to a story. They need to understand why they should care before they know what happened.”
6 Must-Read Articles About How To Scale Leadership
“Very few leaders think this way. They rely on themselves to be intellectually sharp on bad diets. They go into fundraising pitches hobbled by self-doubt and anxiety. They host all-hands when their energy dips in the late afternoon. And in so doing, they limit their potential.”
How One Metric Has Changed The Way We See The World
“This metric is called engagement, and emphasizing it — above all else — has subtly and steadily changed the way we look at the news, our politics, and each other.”