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Dark Matter
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It’s the beautiful thing about youth. There’s a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential.
“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. Leslie Lamport”
― Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
― Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
“while people might care which company they join, they don’t care which company they work for. The truth is that, once there, people care which team they’re on.”
― Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
― Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
“What one wins in a finite game is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them—unless, of course, I address myself as an other. The effectiveness of a title depends on its visibility, its noticeability to others.”
― Finite and Infinite Games
― Finite and Infinite Games
“Actually, the data reveals that checking in with your team members once a month is literally worse than useless. While team leaders who check in once a week see, on average, a 13 percent increase in team engagement, those who check in only once a month see a 5 percent decrease in engagement.”
― Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
― Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
“Fifty years ago, I published a study2 devoted to a specific type of depression I had diagnosed in cases of young patients suffering from what I called “unemployment neurosis.” And I could show that this neurosis really originated in a twofold erroneous identification: being jobless was equated with being useless, and being useless was equated with having a meaningless life. Consequently, whenever I succeeded in persuading the patients to volunteer in youth organizations, adult education, public libraries and the like—in other words, as soon as they could fill their abundant free time with some sort of unpaid but meaningful activity—their depression disappeared although their economic situation had not changed and their hunger was the same. The truth is that man does not live by welfare alone.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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