Start your day with a pledge to become the person you want to be.
A Pledge Of Allegiance To Yourself
How to Pick a Career That Actually Fits You
“When it comes to careers, society is like your great uncle who traps you at holidays and goes on a 15-minute mostly incoherent unsolicited advice monologue, and you tune out almost the whole time because it’s super clear he has very little idea what he’s talking about and that everything he says is like 45 years outdated.”
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.”
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-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