“Your absolute best won’t be good enough for the wrong person.
At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.
Remember that.”
— Unknown
https://thoughtkick.com/post/678620223996297218
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“Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
— Benjamin Franklin
https://thoughtkick.com/post/678637589482356736
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“I gave the wrong people the right pieces of me.”
— Unknown
https://thoughtkick.com/post/678491353083199488
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It is not your studies that will bear fruit but the intensity of your attention.
— Robert Greene, The Daily Laws
Work Accomplished = Time Spent x Intensity
— Cal Newport
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Badly mangled my espanso config today.
On a day, I have no time to breathe.
Fired up Timeshift, restored the file.
Espanso is back in business.
Take regular backups, kids!
(And test ’em too!)
#Backups
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
— Franz Kafka
The Daily Laws, Mar 8, Robert Greene
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“Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”
— Unknown
https://thoughtkick.com/post/677975584964542464
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“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.”
— Daniel Burnham
https://fs.blog/brain-food/march-6-2022/
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Tiny Thought, Asymmetry
Linear games are won by working harder than others. And the harder other people work, the higher the bar. You need to work harder and harder, just to stay in the same relative position.
Asymmetry is different. Even people who understand asymmetry consistently underestimate its power.
Positive asymmetry happens when you have a lot of upside and little downside. Negative asymmetry is when you have little upside and high downside. Finding hidden or overlooked asymmetry is the key to an unstoppable advantage. And there is a lot of it hiding in plain sight.
Consider trust. A lot of people are slow to trust. Their default level of trust is about 40% and you earn more.
Very few people understand that a low trust approach reduces positive asymmetry.
Most of the time people deserve to be trusted by default. Perhaps 3% of the time they take advantage of you and make you look foolish. In an effort to avoid what happens 3% of the time, people forgo asymmetric upside.
Not only does a low trust approach eliminate the upside, but you spend your time looking over your shoulder worrying about how someone might take advantage of you. That’s no way to live.
High trust people want to be around other high trust people.
I’m pretty trustworthy by default. And while some people have taken advantage of me, I still prefer my approach because there is no ceiling on what’s possible. The three largest business deals of my life have all been high-trust deals.
A low trust approach might put a floor on how often you get taken advantage of, but it puts a ceiling on what’s possible.
— Shane Parrish
https://fs.blog/brain-food/march-6-2022/
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“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”
— Richard Moss
https://thoughtkick.com/post/677717777658806272
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