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Dan Barrett

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I write about art, mental models, entrepreneurship, and productivity. Musician: HAVE A NICE LIFE, Giles Corey, Black Wing.

Weekly Better Questions Email: Katılım Mayıs 2009
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BetterQuestions.co is live! The new, unified home for my weekly newsletter and blog. Now over 5,000 subscribers strong. Check it out. I'd love to have you.
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Bend your rules before you break your rules
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Everything is exhausting
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Happiness is imaginary. So stop obsessing about it Imagine you already have it And move on
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The “right side of history” is essentially defined by being empathetic to those who are suffering when you are not. Sooner or later It comes back around
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Meaningful Tweet: Comedians are Jokesters But Politicians Are Clowns
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Most important question to answer each week: “Did I do what I set out to do? If not, why not?” You either adjust your future expectations (and thus feel better on average) Or remove constraints (thus performing better on average).
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Predicting the future is a sucker's game. An infinity of ways to be wrong Only one way to be right. Better to make it so that the future doesn't matter.
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You’re always optimizing for something.
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We are flattening the world And it’s making us miserable. We’d rather be anxious in a world we can manipulate than live with the uncertainty of the real.
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If at all possible you should be friends with someone who embarrassed you with their productivity Tim is that person, for me
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Opportunity cost is a slippery one. Easy to string yourself along on things that aren’t working simply because they might work…someday.
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I’ve been tweeting about a lot of nerdy stuff. Stats, rationality, whatever. Make no mistake I want to fuck the world up.
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The less validation you can get by with, the more powerful you become
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Nobody believes what they tweet. Nobody
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Typing out and then deleting hot takes un-tweeted
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I like to call it BET-Coin because you are BETting that the price will go up send tweet
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So, hey. I’m the first to admit - I don’t know a TON about NFTs. But I do know a bit about market bubbles. And while I am 100% for anything that gets artists paid...
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