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Stripe Press — High Growth Handbook
Stripe Press — High Growth Handbook
Digital minimalism
Digital minimalism
“F**k You” Money
“F**k You” Money

Life is defined by opportunity costs. The opportunity cost of reaching the pinnacle of professional success is often a lackluster family life. It's not necessarily that money destroys relationships, but the dedicated effort needed to achieve this success comes at the expense of other (often family) aspects of one's life.

A singular drive to succeed professionally often yields a life where one's only success is in their profession.

On Free Speech
On Free Speech

In "anarchic" environments with large disagreements on what the norms are, "an eye for an eye" in-kind retaliation is one of the better social norms to have because it ensures that people only face punishments that they in some sense have through their own actions demonstrated they believe are legitimate.

On Free Speech - Vitalik Buterin
Describing imaginary experiences
Describing imaginary experiences
. against narrative identity
by Nico Chilla
83 blocks • 4 days ago
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“Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call ‘humble’ nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.”

— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book 3, Chapter 8, “The Great Sin,” Kindle location 1665

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How do you get to know a character in a novel? Does the author just list off their personality traits, or try to describe their humanity in a couple of sentences? No. This is considered bad writing as far as I’m aware — “show, don’t tell” the old truism goes. Instead you learn a person bit by bit (just as in life) through their gestures, mannerisms, statements, beliefs, actions, and so forth.

So why is it that when people describe themselves on websites, they think that summing up their identity in two sentences is the way to go about it, that they’re even capable of this? “Show don’t tell” may be a truism, but I think it holds here. I learn much more about a person by seeing them discuss the things that capture them and show the things they make or do.