Intelligence is not a reliable advantage in a world that’s become as connected as ours has. But flexibility is. In a world where intelligence is hyper-competitive and many previous technical skills have become automated, competitive
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“That’s part of this world: you learn probably more from the failures than you do from the successes.”
― Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System
― Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System
“What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline.
Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.”
― The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.”
― The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired..”
― Open
― Open
“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
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