Month: July 2021

What You Can Never Change: 1. The past 2. The world 3. Other people What You Can Always Change: 1. Your attitude 2. Your assumptions 3. Your beliefs

The podcast host and author talks The Little Mermaid, self-driving cars, and Canadian zombies.

Tired of all the smoke and mirrors of overhyped entrepreneurship? All the hand-wavy buzz words of the startup du jour? This is a wonderful story of product, product, product meets focus, focus, focus.

I’ve argued before that buggy games are a leading indicator of changes in average software quality; gamers like finding exploits, and exploits are a variety of bug, so they end up uncovering quality issues fast. But there’s also a cultural difference: gamers seem to expect higher quality software. The fact that games are not a…
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What can we learn from fear? How can we use it to redefine the space between risk and injury? How can we make it into a wedge that makes us better able to act in the world instead of retreating from the dangers life throws at us?

Yet we have from Marcus Aurelius’s acknowledgments in Meditations a sense of how he tried to comport himself and its worth applying to our partisan and social media-driven times as well. From the literary critic Alexander, Marcus says he learned, “Not to be constantly correcting people, or in particular not to jump on them whenever…
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Great thread on Twitter by Dan Rose about Jeff Bezos. Only Actions count:

To stay away from Azeroth—which is to remain unsubscribed from Blizzard Entertainment’s enduring MMORPG,  World of Warcraft—is no simple task. In fact, the gaming community has long (and only half-jokingly) referred to the orc- and elf-filled game as “World of Warcrack.” As somebody who, over the past 14 years, has racked up more than 600 days…
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One way to spot a poor thinker is to see how many of their decisions boomerang back to them. If poor thinkers make poor decisions it stands to reason those decisions will eventually create more problems. More problems consume more time, leaving them even less time to think about new problems. The time used to…
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. Logic will never change emotion or perception. Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono, author, doctor and consultant, born 19 May 1933; died…
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