“Remember that every dollar you take from someone else is a dollar of influence they get to wield.”
Four Things to Know Before You Get Married
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-fulfilling prophecy.”
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 few minutes, leave that behind, and see what’s the first thing you want to focus on.”
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. No one ever tells you not to listen to it. And not only that, there’s no expectation of what a podcast is supposed to be.”
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 precisely the wrong thing. Less repetition of big, big news. Fewer memes I’d already seen a hundred times. Less breathlessness. And more of what the people I follow were actually thinking about, reading, and doing.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“You can only make sense of the online world by going offline.” — Pico Iyer
5 Tactics I’ve Used To Get 25,000 Newsletter Subscribers
I’m not big on secrets.
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 you do. And they certainly don’t behave the way you want them to.”
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 creativity. So, the data show that having too many rules is one way to do that.”