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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Meditation is more powerful than psychedelic drugs, not milder as commonly assumed.

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  The moment when you realize that you thought drugs were powerful and meditation was mild, but you now realize the opposite is true.

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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  The more actors weaponize interdependence without good maps of the system, the more unexpected failures and dumb mistakes will occur.

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  the more that we see actors looking to weaponize without any very good maps of how and what they are doing or what kinds of unexpected repercussions might happen, the more we can expect not simply increased risks of tension and worry, but also people screwing up, doing dumb stuff.

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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.

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  Transcendental Meditation

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  Transcendental meditation has helped me make that transition since 1969.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Making dramatic claims about contemplative experience helps sustain interest in a topic that is otherwise fairly dull.

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  Additionally, making bold declarations about the extremity of contemplative experience is a decent way to keep people talking about meditation, which can be a fairly boring subject.

  Biting the no-self bulletsashachapin.substack.com

Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  10% Happier

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  Nice and entertaining introduction to the ideas of mindfulness and meditation.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  The core tension of all engineering is between how expensive a mistake is and how quickly you can iterate, and that alone decides how much planning a field does.

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  The core tension of engineering is between how expensive it is to make a mistake and how quickly you can iterate. The faster you can iterate, the less planning you need to do before you iterate, and the more expensive it is, the more planning you need to do.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  When two truths conflict and both are hard to accept, people resolve the tension by discarding one of them.

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  Reality hands us two truths at once, and when we can't stomach both, we eliminate one.

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Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.

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  Crosswords and sudoku are closer to meditation than to cognitive training, because they keep you focused without ever making you struggle.

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  Even if you're doing hard ones, if you look at the work of people like uh Gloria Mark, the things like crossword and sudoku, they're less of like a true cognitive challenge, right? It's it's almost has more of like a meditation meditative like effect, right? Which can be a good thing, right? So you're focused but not challenged really.

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Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

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  Yelling and nagging at children produces compliance in the moment but costs tension, sulking, and guilt.

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  Yelling and nagging may seem effective in the moment ("I'm getting them to put on their shoes!"), but the cost is tension, sulking, and guilt.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Dreading a future experience causes much of human suffering by making that imagined suffering happen now.

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  A large percentage of human suffering is anticipatory tension, or dreading a future experience such that you actualize its potential suffering in the now.

  Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com

Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  Practices marketed as transformative, such as therapy, meditation, and psychedelics, often produce little real progress despite years of use.

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  There are many practices that promise to transform and improve us-therapy, meditation, psychedelics-, but that branding doesn't mean that they actually do much for us: it is common to see people use these techniques for years without any obvious progress on their problems.

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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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  Unit testing's only job should be to flag when something unexpected happens.

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  I still believe that unit testing should be nothing more than "tell me if something unexpected happened."

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

From one piece Practice method, not results. METHOD NOT RESULTS. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Damaging experiences from meditation usually happen because practitioners chase results instead of following the method.

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  Almost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.

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  Practicing meditation for methods rather than for results is one of the most important principles in contemplative practice.

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  I think it's one of the most important warnings in contemplative practice, a warning sticker that should go on every single meditation book.

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Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.

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  Harder is easier: committing up front to quality, ethics or safety pays back in rewards you cannot get by chasing the reward.

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  harder is easier is a principle that says if you're willing to do the work upfront to commit to quality, to design, to ethics, to integrity, to safety, whatever the thing, I don't want to tell you what your values are, you tell me what they are. If you're willing to be principled in your decision-making, you will get these unexpected rewards.

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Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.

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  A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

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  a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.

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Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.

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  The original Cuisinart, with its two paddle buttons and clear affordances, was peak interface design, and it has been downhill from there.

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  Big flat toggle buttons under satisfying tension. Clear affordances. You push them down, not in. One click catches, one doesn't. You can use them with bare hands, oven mitts, fingers coated in slippery whatever. Doesn't matter. Plenty of surface area. Outstanding design. It's all been downhill from there.

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It

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  Booth's formally trained (and her grandparents are watercolor artists!) but her use of color is just so free and unexpected, it makes you want to experiment yourself and join along in the fun.

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Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

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  Intensity produces a good story while consistency produces progress, and only consistency belongs to how a person actually lives.

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  Intensity makes for a good story. You know, it's like, oh, I went to a silent meditation retreat for a week, you know, or I um I ran a marathon. Um you know, we launched this product faster than any other had been launched or what, you know, intensity makes for a good story, but consistency makes progress.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  There Is No Antimemetics Division

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  There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a mind-bending psychological thriller about a secret agency tasked with fighting dangerous "antimemes"—ideas that refuse to be remembered. Plenty of stories start with a clever high-concept premise and just let it play out. This one pushes its premise to extremes I never imagined possible, ratcheting up an astonishing amount of tension along the way.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  The real danger of AI is not that it does our work but that it lets us shortcut hard feelings, the way a phone already lets us avoid a difficult conversation.

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  You can shortcut like hard feelings because now you can just watch TikTok instead of actually dealing with the very difficult emotion or tension that you had with a colleague or with your partner or with your children.

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Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.

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  Great customer service has always been a luxury only a Hermès or a Four Seasons could afford, and AI is what breaks the trade-off between its cost and its quality.

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  And the reason this is important is what we're trying to do in a way is resolve this age-old tension between the cost and quality of customer experience where I think every great business wants to deliver an amazing experience to their customers. But unless you're like Hermes or the Four Seasons, it's too expensive to do.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  Neither running everything through the founder nor pushing decisions down is the better way to run a company; each only works if it fits that company’s own resources and values.

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  Either can work. Both have tradeoffs and implications. If you try to import either philosophy wholesale, it will break in unexpected ways; if you try to mix and match, it will probably be an unfettered nightmare.

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Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.

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  An opportunity solution tree exists to resolve the tension between what the business needs and what the customer needs.

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  Opportunity solution trees help product trios: Resolve the tension between business needs and customer needs

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  The Vagabond’s Way

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  Best travel book I’ve ever read! Shook my soul many times. Tiny “daily meditation” format, with lots of quotes from others, but wow what wonderful insights. They make me yearn to travel again. Love love love these ideas and perspectives so much.

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Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

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  A cultural focus on psychological health, meditation included, is one of the great obstacles to human progress.

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  I think meditation has been very good for me and that it would be very good for a lot of other people too.

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Relationship Handbook

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  Best philosophy of love relationships I’ve ever found. Like meditation teaches you that moods pass, this experienced marriage counselor says this applies to relationship communication as well. When angry or insecure, don’t vent, don’t share that. Let the feeling pass. Your anger doesn’t reveal some real truth. Everyone in a romantic relationship should read this.

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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Alchemy

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  Rory Sutherland was part of one of the most legendary ad agencies in the world (Ogilvy) and shared the truth of what he has seen work best in advertising. The truth is that most of it is totally unexpected and counterintuitive. It was always the craziest, boldest, most unique things that outperformed the "tried and true" methods. This book will help your marketing get out of the incremental rut and on track with bolder ideas.

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