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It’s better to give with a warm hand than a cold hand. 28all. Eya. *MG* The Warm-Up: “Language is a very complex human phenomena. It is the force which defines what it is to be human. Language gives us a past and a bright future. It is the vehicle which allows us to dream, to set goals and to make plans for the future. Language is the means by which the future gets written, so it stands to reason if you want to attain a different future, then you need to make changes in the language you use.” ~Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan, The Three Laws of Performance The Core: “The places that have nothing to do with your work are usually where God does the most work on you.” ~Justin Owens “One of the most underrated blessings is meeting people who genuinely wish you well. No competition, no jealousy, no weird energy just pure support.” ~Lawrence Kitema “Caring is cool. You are not going to be the best anything—including the best version of yourself—with an attitude of nonchalance. Try hard and give a damn.” ~Brad Stulberg, The Way of Excellence “The ability to navigate conflict without losing composure is worth more than any technical skill. Anyone can perform when things are smooth. Very few can stay calm, clear, and effective when things get tense.” ~Sharran Srivatsaa “Being around successful people shifts your ambition because extraordinary success feels attainable. And when success feels attainable, you lock in and work longer, harder, and with more focus.” ~Shane Parrish, Brain Food. May 31st, 2026, #683 “Major life hack: Quiet progress. Learn to work without validation. No announcement. No hype. No applause. Build when nobody’s watching. Write when nobody’s reading. Train when nobody’s cheering. It doesn’t take talent. Just courage. Quiet progress creates loud results.” ~Sahil Bloom “Game theory explains why people become more honest as their options increase. Most honesty is tested under scarcity. When someone has no alternatives, they are incentivized to manipulate, exaggerate, and conceal. Abundance removes survival pressure. The person with options can afford the truth because the cost of losing any single outcome is lower.” ~@UnmodernmanBot “Most people who are afraid of getting married and having kids are actually spending way too much time online reading from everyone but the happily married who are living private lives. In doubt, pay attention to people who are minding their own business without trying to convince the rest of the world that their choice is the correct choice. The happy people that you want to learn from are never loud, they don’t need any validation, they will only whisper to those who are ready to listen.” ~Orange Book “Credit is sentiment. The withdrawal of confidence moves at the speed of fear. If you’re scared that your counterparty is insolvent, even if it’s a small chance, you’re reluctant to pay them until they pay you first. Everyone wants to receive before they pay out. As a result, no one pays anyone. That’s how a meltdown can happen. Once credit becomes frozen, it can unfreeze only when someone with a bigger balance sheet than the market shows up and assures everyone that they’ll get paid. At that point, the only someone out there was the US government.” ~Lloyd Blankfein, Streetwise “When you lose a game, the score doesn’t transfer to the next contest but your habits certainly will. Circumstances are temporary. Sometimes you’re winning, sometimes you’re losing. Hot, cold. Lucky, unlucky. But your habits travel with you. This is why you want to execute the same way whether the score is 10-0 or 0-10. Not because the score doesn’t matter, but because the score isn’t what you’re actually building. It’s not about winning or losing any given round. It’s about doing things the right way. If you have a chance to practice your craft, you want to do it as well as you can (even if you end up losing that day). Your previous reps can save you or betray you. The habits always translate to the next round.” ~James Clear, 3-2-1 “High-agency people have a fundamentally different model of where the boundaries are. Consider the canonical example: the kid who wanted to learn from some famous person, cold-emailed them, and got a yes. The lesson is usually framed as ‘you should cold-email people, the worst they can say is no.’ But this misses the point. The point is that before the email was sent, the high-agency kid and the low-agency kid were living in different worlds. In the low-agency kid’s world, ‘I could just email this person’ was not a thought that occurred, because the boundary between ‘people I can interact with’ and ‘famous strangers’ was drawn as a hard line, a wall. In the high-agency kid’s world, that same boundary was drawn as a customs checkpoint: annoying, sometimes guarded, but fundamentally passable if you have the right papers. The skill isn’t sending the email. The skill is seeing the email as a thing that exists in your option set.” ~Kpaxs Last Set: “The actual secret to greatness: Pick your thing. Pick a good system for your thing. Surround yourself with people who support you doing your thing. Do your thing for a decade.” ~Brad Stulberg Food For Thought: “‘The microscope is the day-to-day. That’s the most important. Over 90% of the time, you’re focused on the microscope.’ … ‘The telescope is the future - 2 to 3 years from now. What’s your ultimate goal? What do you see yourself becoming? How am I gonna get to that point?’ … ‘You just peek at that from time to time. You think about it at night a little bit, you think about it in the morning, think about it after a workout. Like, ‘That’s why I did that. That’s why I push myself ‘cause I’m getting to that.’ … ‘But majority of the time, I’m in the microscope.’ [...] ‘I’ve learned and realized that I can be so much more productive just by being present instead of worrying about, ‘Oh shit, where do I go next?’ Just be where you’re at.’” ~Maxx Crosby on the microscope and the telescope Something For the Road: “When you start making good money, save it. Especially in the beginning. Save as much as you can. You’ll desire things. New car, new watch, designer clothes to show the world you made it. And dumb philosophies will try to justify it. YOLO, life is short. Don’t pay attention. Don’t change anything. Save for a few years. And one day you’ll notice, the urgency is gone. The anxiety... gone. You go to a restaurant, and you stop looking at the right side of the menu. You plan a holiday and you don’t wait 3 weeks for cheap flights. Someone made you an offer that doesn’t feel right, and you say no without thinking twice. That’s what happens when you overcome instant gratification. It will give you peace to move at your own pace. A little patience, that’s all you need. And it will give you something that no material object can ever match: a calm nervous system.” ~Karun Pal
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