The road to hell is not paved with good intentions. It is paved with lack of intention.

Gabor Maté on intention

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Baldwin on hate

Booking podcast guests has taught me that there are only two kinds of ultra-successful people: “I’m always free” and “I’m never free.”

David Perell on the ultra-successful

People that have found their thing exist in a beautiful state. Usually humble, unrushed, non-competitive, and curious in a non-forced way. What others do is not a trigger because they know only they can do what they are doing in their own unique way.

Paul Millerd on self actualization

Make sure your manager, and maybe even your manager's manager, likes you. If your manager doesn't like you, change teams. If your manager's manager doesn't like your manager, you should also change teams.

throw3823423 on management

Don’t be too good at a job you don’t want.

Cinda Canning in Only Murders In the Building on jobs

The central idea…is that we have overprotected children in the real world, where they need a lot of free play and autonomy, while underprotecting them online, where they are not developmentally ready for much of what happens to them.

Jon Haidt on parenting

…the lack of money and proximity created an outsider’s desperation in her. But also, sophistication is a language; you’re either born speaking it, or you’ll always speak it with an accent.

Libby Epstein in Fleishman is in Trouble on growing up without money

Independent of general intelligence is the necessity for those with a weak short-term or working memory to compensate by relying on long-term, in depth understanding in order to…solve a problem. Whereas those with a short-term memory advantage can simply rely on memorized sets of arbitrary relationships to address the problem. In other words if you have a weak short-term or working memory you have to, by necessity, deeply think through everything - whether simple or complex. This may allow spotting the rare inconsistency or opportunity others may not, but as it comes at a performance and time penalty which, under circumstances commonly encountered in one's educational career (timed examinations) it more typically results in filtering such people out of fields where excursive, highly lateral modes of thinking would be beneficial. To survive this filter one must either acquire (or be gifted with) the talent of exceptionally swift traversal of a large and heterogeneous general knowledge graph, as one cannot rely on a handful of tightly knit but relatively isolated silos of memorized specialization.

ChainOfFools on intelligence and working memory