• Autobiography of a famous Instagrammer
• The Crane Wife
• Stories of escape
• 50 ways to be generous
• Dopamine fasting
• Subtract
• Neumann’s charisma was intoxicating to be around. “If you had to go to war, you wanted him to be your general,” a former executive said. “His sense of himself is beyond human,” recalled another.
• Convince a conservative of a liberal viewpoint by appealing to respect for authority or something else they value, and make sure they know that you are listening to them.
• Story of the two lights
• Be more careful, but more importantly build a better system
• Do one creative thing every day before you start dealing with BS. For me it doesn’t seem like great advice, I like creative outlets as a break or as a focus. I don’t assign personal value to producing continuous creative output.
• The psychology of being late. Overly optimistic, reluctance to change gears, undervaluing of self. Or just arrogance. Only way to change is to actually want it.
• The cofounder of Wired - •Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe, and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows.
• Minerals at British Museum
• Wakaresaseya - Ending a relationship via paid sabotage
• When an abuser is given a boundary, to them it will feel like abuse