source:: “Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her” - Shikamaru Nara “Failure is the mother of success” is a common saying and from my experiences it seems pretty true that we learn best from experimenting and trying out things for ourselves bz-we learn best from doing - especially from our mistakes (because we remember better and actually understand) - see I hear and I forget....

Source People often don’t know what frame they want for the family portrait, so they go to the shop and the assistant will put up various different frames against the picture so you can see what it looks like. Then people are able to voice their preferences like “not this one, but similar, I want a lighter wood frame” source:: David Perell Reflection We often think that we don’t have preferences or opinions on something until we actually encounter the topic and interact with it (able to frame it in our head), then we have loads of opinions....

source:: etymology - Origin of “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange This is a pretty common saying and this links to a really interesting discussion on what is the origin of this saying. Meaning: bz-we learn best from doing

source:: A note blog by Alexkehayias - Reflections on Two Years of Note Blogging About What is note blogging? The idea that you should publish the notes you are writing instead of waiting for them to become fully formed blog posts. Reflections I like this practice because I often take a lot of notes on a topic but then never actually get to publishing the blogpost / video because getting something to ‘production ready’ is really hard....

source:: A way programmers problem solve (try to understand why their code is not working) is to explain the problem to a rubber ducky, because the process of explaining to “someone” really helps find issues that we mentally brush over when we explain to ourselves (because we assume that we know everything about it already). Hence we should z-express to think through the idea and z-write for other people in order to be better thinkers, you dont think in your head you only think when you actually express the idea....

source:: some ted talk? I am looking for it >..< she spoke about how she found vulnerability was important to forming meaningful relationships

source:: Alex Brogan Newsletter Calendar-Priority Alignment “What are your priorities?” “If I look at your calendar, would it be obvious to me that those are your priorities?” Hack: Use your Calendar as your to-do list so that your highest priority to-dos actually get done. Key Idea You want to allocate your time according to your priorities. You can do this by Time-blocking where you create calendar events for each todo you want to do (usually for a week), this means that you set when you will do the thing and how long it will take....

Source Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressue is placed upon it for control purposes [!Quote] Once a measure becaomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure This quote actually came from Hoskin Related The invention of the rational self - Hoskin Hoskin “The Awful Idea of Accountability” - the invention of measureable targets → you are arguing you can derive normative properties of the world with physical natural properties of the world - he says you can’t actually do this, there is something extra that you must account for

source:: Source Reference & Literature Note: Quote + Author Info / Link Ali Abdaal often talks about making your first crappy 100 videos or telling himself to just write out the crappy first draft of his book. David Perell also mentioned how you need to get started with something crappy then you can figure out what you want like Frame it to form Preferences you only have preferences when you can see the thing e....