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If you died tonight, your employer would have a job advert to fill your role by the end of the month. But your friends and family would miss you forever. Don’t get so busy on making a living that you forget to work on making a life.

If you died tonight, your employer would have a job advert to fill your role by the end of the month. But your friends and family would miss you forever. Don’t get so busy on making a living that you forget to work on making a life 👍🏻

— Michael (@trellymick) October 18, 2018

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.

Source: The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong. – Andy Rooney – BrainyQuote

When Feynman was nearing death, he asked Danny Hillis why he was so sad. Hillis replied that he thought Feynman was going to die soon. Feynman said that this sometimes bothered him, too, adding, when you get to be as old as he was, and have told so many stories to so many people, even when he was dead he would not be completely gone.

Source: Richard Feynman – Wikipedia

the most important investment is really in building this more flexible mind or personality

Source: Yuval Noah Harari Explains Why the Secret to Surviving the Coming Tech Dystopia is Not What You Think – GQ

A simple and realistic hack list:

Work hard.

Be nicer to people than you need to be.

Realize that luck is real and under-observed, so be careful treating actions as a direct cause of both success and failure.

A simple and realistic hack list:

Work hard.

Be nicer to people than you need to be.

Realize that luck is real and under-observed, so be careful treating actions as a direct cause of both success and failure.

— Collab Fund (@collabfund) September 17, 2018