reverse thinking
It starts with flipping the script on…
reverse thinking
It’s the novelty, or the imagination that it is novel (even inversion isn’t that novel when we study it), that tends to cause the chaos. Inversion helps you explore that supposed novelty to uncover, sometimes very old, solutions.
Just Don't Be Stupid
false novelty
Just Don't Be Stupid
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Look on the Dark Side for a Change
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Handke’s tiredness is not “I-tiredness”; it is not the tiredness of an exhausted ego. He calls it “we-tiredness” (15). I am not tired “of you,” as he puts it, but rather I am tired “with you”
Byung-Chul Han • The Burnout Society
we-tiredness
It starts with flipping the script on “pay myself first” — not with my money, but with my most irreplaceable asset, my time.
Why I pay myself first—with my time.
There are two forms of potency. Positive potency is the power to do something. Negative potency, in contrast, is the power not to do—to adopt Nietzsche’s phrasing, the power to say no.
Byung-Chul Han • The Burnout Society
If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?