Category: Links of Interest
The Success of the Tortoise and the Hare in Law and the LSAT
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My notes from Revisionist History: The Tortoise and the Hare 4:40 the best former clerk Jeff Sutton would never have been hired, and he’s a tortoise 7:40 the LSAT favours people who can process difficult problems quickly. Processing without understanding is the key thing that the LSAT tests for. 10:50 reading for The Supreme Court…
Are We Asking Too Much of Marriage?
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Interesting article about the usefulness of marriage. The part that gets me thinking most about my marriage is below. In his book The All-or-Nothing Marriage, the psychologist Eli Finkel examines how, over the past 200 years, American expectations of marriage have slowly climbed Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Just a few generations ago, the ideal marriage…
3 Innovation Tokens
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In a treatise for choosing boring technology I very much liked this quote: Let’s say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while. You might get a few more after you achieve a certain level of stability and maturity, but…
Now I Want Notecards
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Reading this piece by Ryan Holiday makes me want to start keeping notecards instead of putting everything in DEVONthink. I wish I had some satisfying explanation about why notecards are so powerful, but I don’t. I don’t know why they are so integral (and yet used in such diverse ways) to so many fascinating people.…
Advice From Tarzan
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From Derek Sivers. Remember how Tarzan swings through the jungle? He doesn’t let go of the previous vine until the next vine is supporting his weight. Good advice to keep in mind at any point in your working career.
One Month Without a Smartphone
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I’ve been thinking about doing exactly what Isaac has done, trade in my iPhone for a basic phone like I had in 2001. This is the big reason. What surprised me was the lingering residue of mental clutter that carrying a smartphone for six plus years had left. I bet there is more clutter than…
Long-Form Content Only?
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From Mark Manson: Long form content should be your bread and butter for news content and the majority of your entertainment content. Long-form content means any medium—Books, Podcasts, long-form articles, documentaries—the key is that shit takes a long time. I’ve been thinking more about this lately. Make my main consumption books and the papers, web…
Effort Is Not Accomplishment
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Out of this excellent post on hard work by DHH this was my favourite quote. Effort is not accomplishment. If you repeat the same lesson a hundred times over, you’ll be left behind on the path to insight by the person who advances through a hundred different lessons.
They’re Just Ecouraging – They Don’t Care About Your Idea
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From Scott in regards to your friends saying good things about your products: The problem is that your friends are lying to you. They don’t actually care about your idea, they are just trying to be encouraging. While this type of feedback is well intentioned, it tells you nothing about whether there is actually a…
The Busy Humblebrag
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As always James Shelly writes well, this time about being busy. Few excerpts, and yes I grabbed copies of most of the papers cited. Thorstein Veblen proposed in 1899 that wealthy elites flaunt their leisure time as a class and status symbol. Leisure, he summarised, was less about relaxing and more about demonstrating the ability…