Olivia Zhu
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- Developing creative identity18 savers
- Democracy in America - Chris Arnade Walks the World1 savers
- What Will Jonathan Anderson Transform Next? | The New Yorker1 savers
- Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.5 savers
- The Color Recession May Be Permanent - The Atlantic1 savers
- A Comprehensive History of Philosophy2 savers
- Explore More: A Bag of Tricks to Keep Your Life on the Rails — LessWrong4 savers
- Donald Trump is trying to eradicate Harvard’s inconvenient truths1 savers
- nytimes.com1 savers
- Dare to Act Differently and Be Happier - The Atlantic1 savers
- How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. Qureshi12 savers
- Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction39 savers
- A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person - The Atlantic1 savers
- essays everyone should read - by sushmita - Sushi Box1 savers
- how to become gently interesting - by lan-anh nguyen1 savers
- When Men Weren’t Afraid to Love Their Friends - The Atlantic1 savers
- The prehistoric psychopath - Works in Progress Magazine1 savers
- How Warren Buffett Changed the Way Investors Thought of Investing - The New York Times1 savers
- Thomas Swinburn: student doctor's winning human touch - The University of Auckland1 savers
- The Key to Critical Self-Awareness - The Atlantic1 savers
- To the Girls Who Overanalyze Everything: - by L.1 savers
- The Irrevocable Fear of Being Perceived - by L.1 savers
- Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People54 savers
- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process65 savers
- A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox68 savers
- How Relationships Actually Work - by Gretta Duleba1 savers
- Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik Karlsson70 savers
- A funny thing about curiosity - by Henrik Karlsson10 savers
- The Key to Critical Self-Awareness - The Atlantic1 savers
- Opinion | The rise of zombie liberalism: Half-dead, half-alive - The Washington Post1 savers
- Opinion | Gen. Stanley McChrystal On Fear - The New York Times1 savers
- It’s Always the Other Side That’s Been Brainwashed | The New Yorker1 savers
- What to Do12 savers
- suchir.net/fair_use.html9 savers
- Teach Yourself Computer Science25 savers
- You don’t need to work on hard problems51 savers
- College advice4 savers
- Bill Gates Isn’t Like Those Other Tech Billionaires - The New York Times1 savers
- The Vexing Problem of the ‘Medium Friend’ - The New York Times3 savers
- How to Do Great Work80 savers
- What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice - Alexey Guzey75 savers
- Advice · Patrick Collison69 savers
- College as an incubator of Girardian terror | Dan Wang36 savers
- The Best Essay19 savers
- against narrative - by rayne fisher-quann15 savers
- On Oppenheimer and Progress14 savers
- Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - LessWrong8 savers
- The Paris Review - What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?7 savers
- A.I. Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Reflects on Winning the Nobel Prize - The New York Times4 savers
- Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym4 savers
- Game theory3 savers
- Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world | Economic policy | The Guardian3 savers
- The confessions of women - by Freya Rohn2 savers
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Donald Trump is trying to eradicate Harvard’s inconvenient truthsThis mindset can be really productive, especially when times are rough and you need to get out of a rut.
Dare to Act Differently and Be Happier - The AtlanticIt is also good advice for understanding things. When in doubt, go closer.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. Qureshinothing beats direct experience.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. QureshiThis method is far more effective than just reading random things and letting them pass through you.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. Qureshi“God watches over all living beings” will not.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. QureshiYou have the drive, the will to know.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. QureshiWriting forces clarity.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. Qureshi“the will to think”.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. QureshiThis requires a lot of intrinsic motivation, because it’s so hard; so most people simply don’t do it.
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. Qureshihabits and character
How To Understand Things - Nabeel S. QureshiIf you didn’t study Jane Austen while you were here, you probably lack the capacity to think clearly about making a marriage decision. If you didn’t read George Eliot, then you missed a master class on how to judge people’s character. If you didn’t read Nietzsche, you are probably unprepared to handle the complexities of atheism—and if you didn’t read Augustine and Kierkegaard, you’re probably unprepared to handle the complexities of faith.
A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person - The AtlanticYou protect your inner world
how to become gently interesting - by lan-anh nguyenWhat makes someone interesting isn’t a list of books they’ve read or a perfect opinion on every cultural debate, but the quality of their attention, their ability to connect unlikely things, their willingness to wonder out loud. You don’t need to master everything, you just need to care deeply about something, and to let that caring shape how you see the world.
how to become gently interesting - by lan-anh nguyenperfect” friendship, was something else—a bond between two men “alike in virtue,” who saw each other as a “second self.”
When Men Weren’t Afraid to Love Their Friends - The Atlanticfriendships of pleasure
When Men Weren’t Afraid to Love Their Friends - The Atlanticfriendships of utility
When Men Weren’t Afraid to Love Their Friends - The Atlanticthe concept of “emotional communities” to understand how the behavior connected to a particular feeling can change across time and place
When Men Weren’t Afraid to Love Their Friends - The Atlanticowes no small debt to pure luck.
How Warren Buffett Changed the Way Investors Thought of Investing - The New York Times“When I set out on the very first day of our very first clinical year, I thought medicine was about diagnosing and treating disease … But Ereuti showed me that sometimes it is the humanity we all possess that is the most powerful medicine.”
Thomas Swinburn: student doctor's winning human touch - The University of Auckland. No amount of thinking, analyzing, or dissecting can protect us from the chaos of the unknown.
To the Girls Who Overanalyze Everything: - by L.We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." — Anaïs Nin
The Irrevocable Fear of Being Perceived - by L.They have turned on their confirmation bias.
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processyou start from the context.
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHuman nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processThe only constant in life is change, as we know.
How Relationships Actually Work - by Gretta Dulebaintimacy and autonomy.
How Relationships Actually Work - by Gretta Dulebato make the implicit explicit,
How Relationships Actually Work - by Gretta DulebaAnd then they feel a lot of distress later when they realize their level of commitment has outstripped the actual level of compatibility in the relationship.
How Relationships Actually Work - by Gretta Dulebastructure and skills
How Relationships Actually Work - by Gretta Dulebaoverdosing on boredom.
Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik KarlssonBut this immersion in boredom
Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik KarlssonBooks can, in other words, be a good stand-in for a social milieu, up to a point, but eventually, you need direct access to exceptional people. And having access to them from a young age greatly increases the likelihood that you will be shaped by them.
Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik Karlssoninterior states—attitudes, beliefs, emotions, traits, motives—over time, in all three of its phases: present, past, and future.
The Key to Critical Self-Awareness - The Atlanticknowing thyself can protect people from the damaging errors and biases that lead them into self-serving delusion.
The Key to Critical Self-Awareness - The Atlanticindividual freedom than talk about collective rights or responsibilities
Opinion | The rise of zombie liberalism: Half-dead, half-alive - The Washington PostIn this, we will find not just a defense against fear, but also the foundation of our strength.
Opinion | Gen. Stanley McChrystal On Fear - The New York Timesoutrage is a currency
Opinion | Gen. Stanley McChrystal On Fear - The New York TimesWorse, some have become the very architects of disorder, stoking division and resentment for personal gain
Opinion | Gen. Stanley McChrystal On Fear - The New York TimesFear isolates. It pushes us into ideological bunkers, surrounding us only with those who think like us. And when fear festers, it mutates. What begins as anxiety turns into resentment. Resentment hardens into hatred. Hatred strips away our ability to see others as people. The result is a society riven by suspicion and hostility.
Opinion | Gen. Stanley McChrystal On Fear - The New York Timeshow we respond to it
Opinion | Gen. Stanley McChrystal On Fear - The New York Timesand throughout his life a recurring theme in Carr's thinking was that the world was progressively becoming a better place.
E. H. Carrprogress as an unstoppable force in world affairs
E. H. CarrZendaya and Ariana Grande in fabulous dresses for red carpets.
[Opinion] Nathan Chen wears a fashion crime to the Olympics – Eagle Eye Newssoccer goalie’s jersey and plain black pants.
[Opinion] Nathan Chen wears a fashion crime to the Olympics – Eagle Eye Newsbreaking all stereotypes of a figure skating costume in the absolute worst way possible.
[Opinion] Nathan Chen wears a fashion crime to the Olympics – Eagle Eye NewsThe lesson: When someone cries around you, show you’re there for that person. The science says it really does help.
Why Do People Cry? Here’s What We Know. - The New York TimesPeople tend to report feeling better if the crying episode was prompted by an issue that could be solved, like a disagreement with a partner,
Why Do People Cry? Here’s What We Know. - The New York Times“Your world becomes greater, so there are more people who become more important for you,”
Why Do People Cry? Here’s What We Know. - The New York Timeswater, oils, mucus, antibacterial proteins and electrolytes,
Why Do People Cry? Here’s What We Know. - The New York Times