flâneur

Kai Liu

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  • I know that you cannot skip to the punchline of the cosmic joke. If you’re ambitious, it will be hard to believe that achievement won’t make you completely happy until you accumulate some achievements, and notice the gaps in your happiness.
    50 things I know - by Sasha Chapin - Sasha's 'Newsletter'
  • Emotional suppression can be a great short-term coping strategy. The problem, long-term, is that it is not surgically precise. I know you can’t suppress pain and anger without also deadening yourself generally. When I started to release my childhood resentments, I was surprised to find myself surrounded by brighter colors.
    50 things I know - by Sasha Chapin - Sasha's 'Newsletter'
  • Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I’ve spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
    The days are long but the decades are short - Sam Altman
  • The days are long but the decades are short.
    The days are long but the decades are short - Sam Altman
  • Do new things often. This seems to be really important. Not only does doing new things seem to slow down the perception of time, increase happiness, and keep life interesting, but it seems to prevent people from calcifying in the ways that they think. Aim to do something big, new, and risky every year in your personal and professional life.
    The days are long but the decades are short - Sam Altman
  • If you work too long on tedious stuff, it will rot your brain. And the best paying jobs are most dangerous, because they require your full attention.
    How to Do What You Love
  • Sometimes jumping from one sort of work to another is a sign of energy, and sometimes it's a sign of laziness. Are you dropping out, or boldly carving a new path?
    How to Do What You Love
  • If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to make it prestigious.
    How to Do What You Love
  • If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige.
    How to Do What You Love
  • Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like.
    How to Do What You Love