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Definite – Indefinite – Optimistic – Pessimistic

(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) To a definite optimist, the future will be better than the present if he plans and works to make it better. A definite pessimist believes the future can be known, but since it...

August 23, 2020| Life, Matrix Read More

Making a life choice is a bet on a future version of us

(Excerpt from Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke) In most of our decisions, we are not betting against another person. Rather, we are betting against all the future versions of ourselves that we are not choosing. …...

August 16, 2020| Life, Luck, Optionality, Path Dependence, Randomness, Success Read More

Do something for love and something for money

(Excerpt from How do you do what you love and make money by Derek Sivers) First: balance. You’ve heard about balancing heart and mind, or right-brain left-brain, or whatever you want to call it. We all have a need for...

August 10, 2020| Life, Yin Yang Read More

Social media enables divided people to meet each other

I thought Twitter was driving us apart, but I’m slowly starting to think half of you always hated the other half but never knew it until Twitter. Michael Arrington, Founder of TechCrunch...

August 2, 2020| Life, Yin Yang Read More

Some people see the thing that they want, and some people see the thing that prevents them from getting the thing that they want

(Excerpt from Simon Sinek’s speech, transcript by Goalcast) There were some free bagels and they had picnic tables set up. On one side was a group of volunteers. On the table were boxes of bagels and on the other...

July 13, 2020| Success Read More

Hard work is not a panacea

(Excerpt from The Star Principle by Richard Koch) … nearly all successful entrepreneurs stress the importance of hard work. But so do 95 per cent or more of all executives, successful or unsuccessful,...

February 18, 2020| Life Read More

Is It Better to Overestimate or Underestimate Yourself?

(Excerpt from Motherfucking Monday on 20 Jan 20 by Mark Manson) We all have a tendency to overestimate ourselves and our abilities and this often causes a lot of unnecessary pain. A huge part of self-awareness is the...

January 23, 2020| Ego, Life, Yin Yang Read More

Circular vs linear time

(Extracted from Flights by Olga Tokarczuk) Once we’re on the bus, she sets out her theory of time. She says that sedentary peoples, farmers, prefer the pleasures of circular time, in which every object and event must...

January 16, 2020| Life Read More

Don’t follow convention, be creative and pragmatic to solve problems

(Extracted from The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday) In 1915, deep in the jungles of South America, the rising conflict between two rival American fruit companies came to a head. Each desperately wanted to acquire...

January 2, 2020| Life Read More

Should you take the offer to sell your business?

(Extracted from FckdEx by Scott Galloway) There was a great deal of discussion on whether to sell. I urged the founders, naturally optimistic about the firm’s prospects, to sell. The difference between $1 million and...

December 27, 2019| Life, Strategy Read More

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