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Entrepreneurs benefit from setting ambitious goals, even though most people do not need grand ambitions at all.Their words
And I will say I've actually changed my mind on that a little bit. I spent quite a lot of time speaking the other book that there are a lot of people who don't actually need those ambitions. And I also-- That's also true. We don't want 8 billion Elons running around the world. Would be rather crazy, I think. But I've come to realize that for entrepreneurs, it's healthy to have suitable chunky goals.
24 August
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A cabin in literature typically serves as an escape from trouble or a place where new trouble is found.Their words
The cabin is a classic literary setting. It's the getaway spot where characters can flee to escape their troubles or journey to in order to find new ones.
Processing: How Josh Riedel Edited Thirty Cabinscountercraft.substack.com
9 August
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Saying no and setting boundaries are acts of self-preservation, not selfishness or letting others down.Their words
Saying no is not selfish; it's an act of self-preservation. Setting boundaries is not about letting others down-it's about standing up for yourself.
6 August
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The only style worth having is the one you cannot help; setting out to develop a personal style is the wrong goal.Their words
And that there might come a moment, while reading a new, just-edited-for-the-thousandth-time draft, where that true self, or voice, pops out at you, suddenly revealed, as if someone else, not you, had done it.
On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com
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The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.Their words
The planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
17 June
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In the English-language arena, Britten sets the standard for handling writers of inborn musical power-the likes of Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Hopkins.
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Big companies will lose about half of their engineers, because that is where everybody is setting the dial.Their words
And so, what's happening is everybody on average is setting that dial to about 50% and we're going to lose about half the engineers from big companies, which is scary.
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New Year's goals are merely the path toward a person's underlying purpose, not the destination itself.Their words
People make this mistake of setting new goals every January 1st, but forget that goals are the path, not the destination.
5 October 2025
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And a thousand experiments by itself, like if you just did that, but you didn't learn, you didn't make an impact, and that's kind of a waste of time, right? The whole point of setting a goal is that you can have conversations about what would need to be true to actually hit that goal.
3 September 2025
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EnsorcelledTheir words
Ensorcelled by Eliot Peper is genius. It’s a unique format that can be read in one setting. The writing is beautiful.
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Setting a worse task against the one you are avoiding is a procrastination hack that actually works.Their words
It’s when you really don’t want to do a thing that you imagine a thing you don’t want to do more that’s worse than that and then in that way, you procrastinate by not doing the thing that’s worse. It’s a nice hack, it actually works.
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The Inca stones were not fitted by patient pecking with hammer stones; they were fused with acid.Their words
The common archeological wisdom that you’d find out of a textbook is that they just kept pecking away at it with hammer stones and setting them and resetting them until they were perfect, which has to be bullshit, that there is no way that they just were that meticulous. I mean, everybody’s got a hammerstone. I personally think it’s acids.
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ZojirushiTheir words
Turn on the rice cooker for normal or quick cooking (I have a Zojirushi, either setting works).
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The Black CompanyTheir words
I enjoyed the first book a great deal: it’s in a fairly stock medieval setting, but it handles the dark fantasy well
6 June 2022
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The Lincoln HighwayTheir words
Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes.
16 August 2021
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The only thing a productivity system can do for you is help you choose slightly better what to do right now.Their words
In the end, the only point of any personal productivity system, goal-setting technique or "life planning" exercise is to help you make a slightly better decision about what to do, right now
20 October 2020
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