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What if thinking long-term increases the likelihood you'll quit? New video out. Link below.

The article summarized: Allostatic load is the accumulated physical wear and tear on your body from stress without proper recovery. It compounds daily, spilling from one day into the next. It's the reason you feel flat, foggy, and unmotivated even after sleeping. And it's

With every LLM model upgrade, the value of long uninterrupted blocks of time spent in flow state compounds.

What skill, if mastered, would give you the most leverage?

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Why focus feels hard:

Shiny objects disperse our focus because they never look like shiny objects—they look like rare, worthy exceptions that justify splitting our focus. The more convinced you feel that “for this one thing, it makes sense to split my focus” the more dangerous the shiny object.

If you need lots of discipline, somethings broken. Discipline should be a reserve tank you can fall back on when you run out of fuel, not your primary fuel source. Sustainable motivational fuel comes from the six intrinsic motivators—curiosity, purpose, autotelicity,

The article summarized: Most people think procrastination is a willpower or motivation problem. It's actually a neurochemical conflict. Your brain has two systems that fire at the same time: the approach system (dopamine-driven, pulling you toward the task) and the avoidance

Prompting now feels like casting spells. I feel as much like a professional magician as an entrepreneur at the moment.

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How to work less and achieve more:

Curiosity is a powerful lever on motivation. Curiosity drives learning. Learning drives dopaminergic reward (the brain likes improving). Reward generates an urge to do more of the thing that created the reward. Curiosity —> Learning —> Reward —> Motivation —> More Learning