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Everyone is always doing their best. Given their situation, priorities, and awareness (the circumstances), people make choices. If we want to change how others respond, we need to change their circumstances and how they see their options.
Often, the things we want the most aren’t directly related to the things we need. In fact, they might be very similar to things we already have. Wants are fueled by stories, and stories come from culture and connection and marketing, not from our actual physical or spiritual needs.
Don’t play games you can’t win. If the deck is stacked against you, a smart option is to go to a different table and play with a different deck. The dominant system wants you to wait to get picked. It indoctrinates people, again and again, in accepting its hegemony and insight and wisdom, so that […]
One sort of delusion is believing that we’re smart and skilled simply because we got lucky. This perpetuates a cycle of bad decisions that just happened to lead to good outcomes, and causes people to confuse their wins with heard-earned skill. Often, when someone successful in one field (where they compounded an early lead) moves […]
Here’s a quick tactical riff about how we name things. It’s worth considering that: If you’ve got four initiatives going on, numbering or even lettering them can’t help but communicate a priority to others. Considering flavoring them instead. When there’s an orange, a blue and a pink project, we can see that they’re separate and […]
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We’ve long used the French word milieu in English, but not with quite the same range of meanings it has back in France. For example, French society (and especially the members of its older generations) explicitly recognizes the value of a milieu in the sense of the collected friends, acquaintances, and relations with whom one has […]
Everyone is always doing their best. Given their situation, priorities, and awareness (the circumstances), people make choices. If we want to change how others respond, we need to change their circumstances and how they see their options.
These days, we hear much said on social media — surely too much — in favor of the “hustle culture” and the “grind mindset” (or, abbreviated for maximum efficiency, the “grindset”). Dedication to your work is to be admired, provided that the work itself is of value, but the more of a day’s hours you […]
Often, the things we want the most aren’t directly related to the things we need. In fact, they might be very similar to things we already have. Wants are fueled by stories, and stories come from culture and connection and marketing, not from our actual physical or spiritual needs.
“Early cookbooks were fit for kings,” writes Henry Notaker at The Atlantic. “The oldest published recipe collections” in the 15th and 16th centuries in Western Europe “emanated from the palaces of monarchs, princes, and grand señores.” Cookbooks were more than recipe collections—they were guides to court etiquette and sumptuous records of luxurious living. In ancient […]
