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In & Of Itself...Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JW, KO * The Warm-Up: “If you never copy best practices, you’ll have to repeat all the mistakes yourself. If you only copy best practices, you’ll always be one step behind the leaders.” ~James Clear The Core: “Write truth, and don’t waste a word.” ~Naval Ravikant “The problem isn’t social media; the problem is how you use them.” ~Orange Book “How to win at business: Hire smart people. Pay them well. Leave them alone.” ~Andrew Wilkinson “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” ~Marilyn Vos Savant “Those who reside unapologetically in their true selves tend to be less judgmental of others.” ~Save Inigo “Probably the greatest form of privilege in the modern world is being a native English speaker.” ~Michael Mayer “Networking is overrated. Become first and foremost a person of value and the network will be available whenever you need it.” ~Naval Ravikant “When Whitney just started Bumble, she went door to door to sororities to acquire users. Bumble is valued at ~$8B today. Don’t underestimate women and women communities.” ~Ashley Liu “The focus on racial privilege has led so many people to lose sight of their own cultural advantages, to the extent that a lot of people reading this won’t even know what the latter means.” ~Ayishat Akanbi “Superman didn’t figure out he was Superman the minute he was born you know? It took a whole process for him to get out of Smallville and learn that he can fly. And then eventually he’s Superman. Go be Black Superman.” ~Brian Shields, in Black Magic by Chad Sanders “Small children who have yet to learn the rules will describe people as they see them, not by the political designations of black, white, Asian, or Latino, until adults ‘correct’ them to use the proper caste designations to make the irrational sound reasoned. Color is a fact. Race is a social construct.” ~Isabel Wilkerson, Caste “ ‘Direction over speed. Assets over responsibilities. Outcome over ego. Positioning over predicting. Long-term over short-term. You can’t help but be successful…’ ‘Love it. A few more: Compass over road map. Listening and acting over talking. Learning over knowing. People over things. Change & growth over comfort.’” ~Shane Parrish, Kate Cole “I want Black people to understand that Blackness is its own sort of power and it’s not only important in reference to other things. Our power does not lie solely in the fact that we’ve overcome trauma. Our power lies in the fact that we created in the midst of trauma. We have understood the power of joy and how joy can be liberatory. That is a part of our power that is unique to Blackness…” ~DeRay McKesson, in Black Magic by Chad Sanders Last Set: “Your choices are the bow. Your trajectory is determined by where you aim. Your habits are the string. Without their power, a perfect aim is useless. Your results are the arrow. Everyone cares about where it lands, but the magic happens before the shot.” ~James Clear Food for Thought: “There’s a pusher, there’s a dealer. Exactly. Well, it’s not your fault. I think that’s a loaded term. I wouldn’t say it’s your fault. You didn’t invent Facebook, you didn’t invent Twitter or Slack or any of these tech companies. You didn’t invent that stuff. It’s not your fault. But lots of things in life are not your fault, but they are still your responsibility. So, the price of progress, the price of having all these amazing magical tools is, you know what, guys, we need a little bit of personal responsibility. I think that’s my big criticism of these chicken little tech critics. Nobody ever talks about, ‘Wait a minute, we can do something. We can turn off notifications. We can hack back the technology.’ And it seems like such a common sense, and it’s never discussed because people are so desperate to blame big tech and hope that big government fixes the problem. They’re not going to fix the problem for us. Even if they could, why the heck would we wait and not do something about it?” ~Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction, The Knowledge Project w/ Shane Parrish #104
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