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A working list of thoughts that I'd like to ponder more, or simply retain for a bit.

• My distractions can hurt others.
• Living the life you want requires not only doing the right things, but also to stop doing the wrong things.
• Tantalus. His curse was forever reaching for things he didn't need to begin with.
• "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two soverign masters, pain and pleasure."
• "It is a curious truth that when you gently pay attention to negative emotions, they tend to dissipate - but positive ones expand."
• We don't run out of willpower.
• Level of self-compassion had greater impact on anxiety and depression than many of the external factors that one would expect.
• Self-compassion makes people more resilient by breaking the vicious cycle of stress that accompanies failure.
• When it comes to our time, focus on the input you can control and don't worry about the outcomes you can't control.
• Not showing up guarantees failure.
• The people we love should not be content getting whatever time is left over.
• Receiving a notification but not replying to it is just as distracting as responding to a message or call.
• Is the trigger serving me, or am I serving it?
• RSS feeds for digital gardens.
• Pigeons pecked at levers more often when given a reward on a variable schedule of reinforcement.
• Too often people schedule a meeting to avoid having to put in the effort of solving a problem for themselves.
• Meeting should not be used as a distraction from doing the hard work of thinking.
• Meetings are for consensus building.
• People are typically more motivated to avoid losses than to seek gains.
• Losing hurts more than winning feels good.
• A lack of control leads us to seek things that we can control, which are often just distractions.
• Frame work as a learning problem, not an execution problem.
• I need to think more about what I'd like this to be...

Last modified on Jan 15, 2025