You will not regret the 60 seconds it takes to read this passage by G. K. Chesterton...

if you want to avoid status games, remove yourself from the leaderboard. wear the same outfit every day. drive a cheap car. delete instagram. delete linkedin. cut off social climbers. don't buy branded stuff. the game becomes much less addicting when you don't know the score.

Only focus on what you want

rewiring your brain to never feel lazy again

Greatness cannot be planned, but it can be practiced.

The most hard-hitting 2 sentences in all of talent development research:

my top 4 tech twitter tweets of all time

“There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything." – Vince Lombardi

i just realized that i already have everything 18-year old eric ever wanted in life. that’s really nice. i shouldn’t be so stressed all the time

Higher order thinking Chess vs checkers things

A more common strategy than you think

my ex roommate: “this is the human condition Fernando, you don't have to take a drug for this, you don't have to talk to Claude about this”

Dug up some gold from an old philosopher.

The Redheaded libertarian Sometimes a few students get the whole class in trouble.

Theres always another angle.

My friend's wife drove her car w/ a weird oil smell and some dash light on for a week, until it started making funny noises. Turns out it had no oil, and the 6 month old car was totaled. She remains convinced it was some crazy freak problem that couldn't have been prevented.

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