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” TF: Neil and I, and many other writers, use “TK” as a placeholder for things we need to research later (e.g., “He was TK years old at the time.”). This is common practice, as almost no English words have TK in them (except that pesky Atkins), making it easy to use Control-F when it’s time to batch-research or fact-check.
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve received for writing was a mantra: “Two crappy pages per day.”
Draft ugly and edit pretty.
Most people forget that innovation (and investing in innovation) is a business of exceptions.
” To Be and to Have—
To develop your edge initially, you learn to set priorities; to maintain your edge, you need to defend against the priorities of others.
In excess, most things take on the characteristics of their opposite. Thus: Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less. To explore this concept more, read up on Aristotle’s golden mean.
For me, the goal of “investing” has always been simple: to allocate resources (e.g., money, time, energy) to improve quality of life. This is a personal definition, as yours likely will be.
Despite current euphoria, applying something like Pascal’s wager to startups is a great way to go broke.
Dig into your fears, and you’ll often find that the mental monsters are harmless scarecrows.
“Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it’s a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.”
The second you start doing it for an audience, you’ve lost the long game because creating something that is rewarding and sustainable over the long
run requires, most of all, keeping yourself excited about it. . .
One of the survivors said, ‘The earthquake gave us what the law promises but does not, in fact, deliver, which is the equality of all men.’”
Don’t Use Verbal Crutches
Uber
By using a made-up name for your car reservation, if you see a placard with your real name on it, you know it’s a set-up.
great article of Marc’s in the Atlantic titled “Hacking the President’s DNA.”
If you want to be particularly crafty, you can use a free app
called LinkLiar on OS X to spoof or randomize your MAC address.
you can use the Elements tab in the Developer Tools (mentioned above), right-click on any element in the tab, and click Remove.
To learn about some of the starting tools a hacker, attacker, or someone just curious about security would use, I’d suggest looking at beginning tools such as Wireshark, Charles (web
debugging proxy), NightHawk (ARP/ND spoofing and password sniffing), arpy (ARP spoofing), dsniff (password sniffing), and Kali Linux (penetration testing) and looking up tutorials on network intrusion, sniffing, and man-in-the-middling. Within a few minutes and with a tool like Wireshark, you can start seeing all the traffic going in and out of your computer, while tools like Nighthawk and arpy in conjunction with Wireshark can help you inspect and intercept all traffic on a network!
The Power of Persuasion
“When I articulated that I didn’t care anymore about what anybody thought about what I did except me, all the weight of the world came off my shoulders, and
everything became possible. It shifted to everybody else [being] worried. Now they’re worried. But everything for me, it shifted to a place where I felt free.”
unbelievable (yet ultimately accurate) predictions is making a list of what everyone thinks is true or will be true, and asking “What if that weren’t true?” for each, brainstorming the ramifications.
“When I first went in to Al-Anon [support group for addiction] I heard someone say, ‘People-pleasing is a form of assholery,’ which I just loved, because you’re not pleasing anybody. You’re just making them resentful because
you’re being disingenuous, and you’re also not giving them the dignity of their own experience and [assuming] they can’t handle the truth. It’s patronizing.”
“Codependence is often used incorrectly. It’s when you look to other people to decide how you are feeling.”
‘Comedians become comedians so they can control why people laugh at them.’
