Change
How do things change? Slowly, then all at once.
This paraphrases Ernest Hemingway and Cory Doctorow.
How do things change? Slowly, then all at once.
This paraphrases Ernest Hemingway and Cory Doctorow.
Being wrong doesn't always feel like being wrong.
As usual, there's no subtext here. I'm not trying to be mysterious or send someone a message. I just think some truths are best summarized concisely. They may also be easier to remember that way.
“Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback.”
—Dutch proberb
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For most people, most of the time, there is almost no line between wanting to believe and actually believing. I'm guilty of this, too, in ways I don't even notice. The fact is illuminating, though. It explains so much.
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Grief is not as it appears in movies. It's confusion and disbelief, it's dull and numb, with periods of intense, breathless sadness when one is least expecting it.
If it’s important, do it first.
For years, I’ve tried to remind myself of this. Work expands to fill the time allotted, and with so many distractions vying for our attention every minute of every day, it’s easy to see how the things we care most about sometimes go undone.
If it’s important, do it first.
Multitasking almost never works. I want to show respect to the people around me. I want to fully engage with them. That means not looking at screens that they aren’t looking at. It's easier said than done.
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I once wrote a blog post entitled Less is more. It did fairly well on Hacker News, and two people commented in situ. I was pretty excited. (The comments weren't able to be migrated here.)
Years later, I read the following article from the Washington Post, which dovetails nicely with it. I recommend giving it a read:
We instinctively add on new features and fixes. Why don’t we subtract instead?
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It’s not possible to correct someone who is committed to being wrong.
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“We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded in these short-term signals—hearts, likes, thumbs up—and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity.”
—Chamath Palihapitiya, former VP of Growth, Mobile, and International at Facebook, in a conversation at Stanford
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