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Prioritizing long-term interests over immediate gains Constructing effective arguments Second-order thinking and realizing long-term interests:
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
“I learned early that people will admire your work more if they are not jealous of you.” – Benjamin Franklin
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
The problem with most management, leadership, and business books is that many of them harp on the same self-evident points, overconfident in the usefulness of their prescriptions for would-be imitators. They tend to vastly underestimate the role of circumstance, luck, the nature of completion, and the effects of scale, among other things.
Shane Parrish • Culture Eats Strategy: Nucor’s Ken Iverson on Building a Different Kind of Company
Part of this has to do with confusing fields of precision with fields of uncertainty.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
If you don’t improve by working smart, continuously learning, and continuously experimenting, you could find yourself out of work before you know it.
Scott Trench • Set for Life: An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."
Monopolies are bad. Violence is bad. Monopolies on violence turn out to be one of the best ideas ever. Go figure. #ThinkingIsHard
When seeking to attain success in our lives, rather than concentrating on a specific goal, we would do well to invest our time in forming positive habits.
Farnam Street • Habits vs. Goals: A Look at the Benefits of a Systematic Approach to Life
