21 sentences for those who are 21 that will transform your mindset - a thread of what I wish I knew then

Never attribute to conspiracy what is more easily explained by incentives and incompetence.

Super productive weekend!

I am regularly astonished by how good The Knowledge Project’s content is. For example: fs.blog/steve-jobs-say…

The first day of the #2022tef ends with a mon-verbal treat. Translating for Europe

"What looks like poor choices is often someone trying their best to use willpower to go against their environment." The whole Tiny Thought is definitely worth reading in the The Knowledge Project newsletter this week fs.blog/brain-food/nov…

If I could re-live my 20s, here is what I’d do:

This is nice, and they've been doing it for years👍🏾

Be the kind of person that your kids would look up to, if you weren’t their parent.

Iatrogenics: Why Intervention Often Leads to Worse Outcomes fs.blog/iatrogenics/

Not at all limited to families. You can set up shared passwords groups with any group of close contacts. And you can set up as many groups as you’d like. :)

This is so beautiful and crisp. Imbibe this in your life and talk to your children about this...even more in today's social media driven world. Morgan Housel Naval

Perfectionism acts as an inefficient mechanism for managing anxiety related to disappointment, insecurity or embarrassment. Perfection is directly related to a need for approval. 🤯 Src: youtube.com/watch?v=qEmLMh…

Replace the word “should” with “could”, anywhere it creeps up. Everything is a choice. Some choices have consequences. Accept responsibility and assume control. Life is so much better this way 🤗

ACCEPTANCE brings peace. Before setting off, accept: • You will not do more than what you planned. The rest will stay undone. • You may not even complete what you set out to do. • What is not in your control (you may need to actively think what those are). Relax🧘🏼& perform💪🏼

It seems that many neurodivergent people are low-key traumatized by their inability to get what they "want" done, or to meet external expectations. With no intervention, maladaptive coping mechanisms are developed and solidified over decades. We can do better.

Video-based identity checks won’t survive the GenAI wave. Tools like Google’s Veo 3 are impressive. Verifying identity via video will soon be as naive as trusting caller ID.

Is OpenClaw gonna kill Audible? If your agent can read books on-demand, potentially with the ability to summarize, skip and emphasize just for you, and TTS is decent, do you still need audiobooks?