Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
The Satoshi mic drop is the greatest entrepreneurial act I have ever witnessed. They created what has become a 1.4 Trillion economy and then just walked away. They gave it to the world and said "it is yours". -Fred Wilson AVC May 23, 2024
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.
“Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults.”
James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Rob Henderson @robkhenderson
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Wisdom lies in correctly discerning where we are free to mold reality to our desires and where we must accept the unaltered with tranquility.
– Seneca
– Seneca
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
When I see people described as progressive but they spend more energy hating the rich (e.g. landlords) versus helping people (e.g. pushing for more market rate housing), I’m reminded that people love being cruel while protected by the cloak of righteousness.
X. It’s what’s happening
cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.