flâneur

Timothy Kwan

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  • the process of enjoying that orange made him realize how precious life's moments can be when we engage in them fully. As beings who try so hard to do anything and everything, often all at once, all the time, we can sleepwalk through the ordinary miracles all around us. But in doing just one thing, right now, here, we are forced to come all the way down into the pure essence of attention
    Do One Thing at a Time - Jackson Dahl
  • But measured in total market cap, the build-stuff-for-yourself model might be more fruitful.
    Ideas for Startups
  • Let me repeat that recipe: finding the problem intolerable and feeling it must be possible to solve it. Simple as it seems, that's the recipe for a lot of startup ideas.
    Ideas for Startups
  • Practically every successful company has at least two
    Ideas for Startups
  • Ideas get developed in the process of explaining them to the right kind of person.
    Ideas for Startups
  • To generate such questions you need two things: to be familiar with promising new technologies, and to have the right kind of friends. New technologies are the ingredients startup ideas are made of, and conversations with friends are the kitchen they're cooked in.
    Ideas for Startups
  • Now, whenever I encounter a problem, my first instinct is, who can I find that will want to meet with me regularly and is an expert at guiding me to a solution.
    Thirty Observations at Thirty
  • And the same is true in politics, media, science, and entertainment. Once you understand these worlds of people and how they think, it’s far easier to understand where the world is headed.
    Thirty Observations at Thirty
  • Embracing mimetic desires
    Thirty Observations at Thirty
  • Everything in life compounds
    Thirty Observations at Thirty