flâneur

Milan Muriithi

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  • As Charlie Munger once said: “Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.”
    Ratings Gone Wrong - David Perell
  • As Charlie Munger once said: “Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.”
    Ratings Gone Wrong - David Perell
  • As Charlie Munger once said: “Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.”
    Ratings Gone Wrong - David Perell
  • Study a panoramic idea for long enough and you’ll start to see its effects everywhere.
    One Big Idea - David Perell
  • In contrast to the sprint to read every book on Kindle, Charlie Munger once said: “Take a simple idea and take it seriously.” Many of the most successful people I’ve studied have found their edge by putting their faith in one big idea. They’ve committed to the idea, and studied it so much that its implications have become second nature
    One Big Idea - David Perell
  • This modern reading habit stems from a deep-rooted cultural insecurity. We no longer believe that one idea can be transformative.
    One Big Idea - David Perell
  • Without the word of God, all we have are opinions. Morality and justice are downgraded from indisputable truths to mere preferences and shared fictions.
    Why You're Christian - David Perell
  • We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Western thought not because it’s irrelevant, but because it’s so all-consuming.
    Why You're Christian - David Perell
  • In other words: If you believe in human rights but don’t believe in God, you need a logical explanation for why they’re self-evident.
    Why You're Christian - David Perell
  • By definition, we’re blind to what we can’t see. When looking for answers, we’re like the proverbial drunk who only looks for their keys in places where the light is shining. This Spotlight Effect distorts our thinking and limits the ideas we can discover. That’s why philosophers spend as much time studying the spotlight as the ground itself.
    How Philosophers Think - David Perell
  • The Impact Bias—our “tendency to overestimate the hedonic impact of future events.” Humans have the ability to simulate future situations in our heads to predict what it’ll be like to experience them, but that simulator doesn’t always work so well and tends “to make you believe that different outcomes are more different than in fact they really are.”
    Life is a Picture, But You Live in a Pixel — Wait But Why
  • An empty white page is a mirror into your mind. When the ideas in your mind are clouded, so are the words on the page in front of you. Re-writing is re-thinking. It’s the best single best way to sharpen your ideas. And once your ideas are as clear as a Neiman Marcus mirror, you’ll be able to teach them to others.
    Why You Should Write - David Perell
  • Lightness has its virtues—it pulls us in, subtly, innocently, whispering, 'Just do things.' The machine rewards movement, so we keep going, collecting badges. One day, we look up and realize we’ve been running in place. And then you feel it: a quiet, gnawing hollowness that, for all the making, nothing has truly been made. Why does it feel bad to stop posting after weeks of consistency? Because the force of your work instantly drops to zero. It was all motion, no mass—momentum without weight. 99% dopamine, near-zero serotonin, and no trace of oxytocin. This is the contemporary creator’s dilemm…
    Make Something Heavy - by Anu - Working Theorys
  • ightness has its virtues—it pulls us in, subtly, innocently, whispering, 'Just do things.' The machine rewards movement, so we keep going, collecting badges. One day, we look up and realize we’ve been running in place.
    Make Something Heavy - by Anu - Working Theorys
  • They want to make one really, really good thing. One truly heavy thing. A book. A manifesto. A movie. A media company. A monument. — A masterpiece.4 Not just for the prestige or the money, but for the proverbial "F-U" to ephemerality. For the way it anchors them to something lasting while giving them the freedom to breathe. For the way it sticks in the hearts and minds of other people who encounter it too.
    Make Something Heavy - by Anu - Working Theorys
  • No matter how many you stack, Tweets and TikToks don’t add up to something heavy. They don’t solidify. At best, they’re a pile of snowflakes, intricate yet ephemeral. Beautiful while they’re here, gone before they hit the ground.
    Make Something Heavy - by Anu - Working Theorys
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding