Very few of us know the people at the tip of the spear. We can make the biggest impact by uniting against the handle, making that behavior far more taboo than it is now.

Nailed it.

Meaning is found in service. If work and life feel empty, maybe it’s because it’s all self-serving. You will find meaning when serving something beyond yourself. Parents get it. Few things bring more joy and fill your soul as doing something for your kids.

Parenting hack: ask ChatGPT to help you teach math to your kid at their grade level. No more homework drama.

The quality x volume debate. Some people want a low-effort job application process. Just click easy apply with LinkedIn and hope for the best. Some companies opt for a low-effort hiring process. Led by disengaged middle managers, who want someone to check the box on tasks.

Talking to friends about the robo taxi / Waymo and how much better the experience is. You can set your temperature, your music, and not have to worry about unpleasant human encounters. The peak of elevated experience is becoming either synthetic sympathy or human absence. Your

Every few months, this subject comes back to the timeline, with opposing takes on how much you should work, 996, hustle porn, WLB, soft generation, etc. Here is my razor for understanding this: No one should know your priorities better than yourself. You can be successful

You can read every book about parenting, but you still wouldn’t know what it’s like to have a child. You can read every book about founders, but you still wouldn’t know what it’s like to start a business. But once you have lived through it, reading enhances the experience.

On Quality, Automation, Shokunin, and Collegia as the answer to AI slop. If you can’t be trusted with the small things, you can’t be trusted with the big things. Right now, we are automating all the small things. I worry that we are creating a world where people won’t have

Posts about finding purpose and productivity do well here because scrolling is mostly purposeless and unproductive. If you are going to eat chocolate, don’t say it’s for the polyphenols. Just enjoy and don’t overdo it.

How could he look down and wave with such calm? I understand when climbers say El Cap was 100x more dangerous than Taipei. But my adrenaline was still through the roof watching him climb the dragons. This is one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen.

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I can’t overstate the impact that the 3G Capital way of doing business has on every Brazilian executive, investor, and entrepreneur. It’s impressive and inspiring to read this Colossus profile. My first job out of college was at Ambev. The culture was as intense as the stories

There's nothing easier than playing with your kids. You are their favorite person in the world. ANYTHING you do with them can qualify as "playing". Turn off your damn phone and just be with them. One of the best things about having kids is that they remind you that you can find

Something I learned when I was young and trying to "network" and sell to "senior executives". Ask questions. Let your curiosity guide the conversation. Eventually, after doing it hundreds of times, you will have collected enough information to develop a rich and informed point of

The productivity gains of … Wispr Flow + Obsidian + Claude Code / Cowork + Granola Are off the charts. Every repetitive process becomes a markdown file / skill. Obsidian saves the notes as files in your computer, which makes it seamless to integrate with Claude. You can speak

What an interesting game theory question. The philosophical question underneath it is: Would you rather risk your life so that everyone could have a chance to live, or guarantee your life knowing there is a chance more than half of the people will die? Do you lean towards

AI gets work done without the need for strong leadership. You can be a terrible leader, and AI won't quit or have morale issues. We will atrophy these capabilities. AI doesn't need to be led, but it also can't lead. AI doesn't need a purpose, but it can't help us find one