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We used to have these. They were called Apartment Hotels. They’d consist of a single room with a bathroom, housecleaning, a cafeteria and lounges. Imagine being able to rent month to month and not need to furnish an apartment. It was ideal. Nuts we got rid of these.

Since its opening in 2011 Ciudad Cayalá, Guatemala, population 12,000, has not had a single security or safety incident more serious than a pickpocketing. No traffic accidents either, as far as I know. This has got to be some sort of record.

Just bought my coworker a 'Get Better Soon' card. She isn’t sick, I just think she could do better.

It turns out major social problems can be solved simply by dropping the hammer on the small percentage of people who refuse to conform to social norms.

I think it bears repeating that BART installed tall gates to enter the subway and they're gaining $10m in revenue a year plus the need for maintenance is down by *95.7%* Passengers who were unwilling to pay a few bucks were causing 96% of the public cleanliness problems!

surprisingly good meditation analogy

If i was born a horse..

The most gangster real estate skill is knowing the zoning code, and all of its loopholes, and being resourceful enough to get things done that other developers can’t. To know little tricks that even architects and engineers don’t. “How were you to build ‘X’ amount of units? Your lot is only ‘Y’ sqft” “How were you able to reduce the parking requirements there?” These questions are music to a gangster’s ears.

On Scott Adams. A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life. Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle. Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply, At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation. Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now. On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go. A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out. Notes: • First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer. • Courage quote via Taleb.

my first thousand hours did nothing, somehow, I think I kept with it mostly bc the aesthetics of sitting in the dark near a candle for an hour was kind of nice. but then it took off and also got an absolutely unbelievable amount of goodness out of it. recommend

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Barely a day goes by where I don't talk to Brent Beshore. I'm hard pressed to think of anybody else who combines a sharp eye for business with such a deep heart. Once a year, he compiles his top learnings in one place. Some lessons from this year's piece: - There is no good life without intentionally choosing less. - Dark things grow in darkness. That’s true in business. It’s true in marriages. It’s true in the soul. - Performance and efficiency work well if you’re made of steel and silicon. But us humans need rest and grace. - G.K. Chesterton got it right: “The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground." - Most of what goes wrong in a company is not novel; it’s just novel to you. - Relationships are the invisible infrastructure of every business. - Big wins in investing usually come from not interrupting a good thing. - A lot of CEO work is invisible. It’s pressure management. It’s absorbing emotion without spreading it. It’s knowing what you think without saying all of it. It’s carrying the weight of uncertain outcomes while still asking the team to move forward decisively. - A CEO has to become comfortable being the person who disappoints people in the short term so the company doesn’t disappoint everyone in the long term. - The CEO is the Chief "No" Officer: very yes is a no to something else. Every strategy is a pile of exclusions. Every commitment is a trade off. The organization will always ask for more: more initiatives, more products, more meetings, more hires, more exceptions, more complexity. Increasing complexity is the default setting of life, and companies are not exempt from natural order. - Lies, even polite, respectable ones, create complexity. Truth, on the other hand, is always low-maintenance. It just sits there while a lie is a careening machine you have to keep from crashing. It needs fuel. It needs updates. It needs version control. You have to remember what you said last time so you can repeat it with the same confidence next time. You have to keep track of what you didn’t say. You have to manage who knows what. And if you’re really committed, you start building an entire ecosystem around the lie so it feels normal. That’s when you’re no longer telling a lie, but living one. The whole thing is worth reading in full.

everyone should have two therapists, a man who tells you to grow up and get your shit together, and a woman who tells you to love yourself the way you are. Ideally they should be married to each other since at least 9 months before you were born