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- A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About (2026)★(favorite)Morgan Housel · 4 min
Housel on why bad behavior makes sense with more information, how housing affordability drives social problems, why people fear AI after the internet, and why politics runs in cycles.
- Ideas That Changed My Life★(favorite)Morgan Housel · 5 min
Housel's handful of ideas that shaped his thinking, including how tribes bend beliefs, why history repeats in behavior, why room for error is aggressive, and how personal experience skews your view.
- A Message From the Past (Thoughts on Nostalgia)★(favorite)Morgan Housel · 6 min
Housel argues nostalgia comes from knowing how the story ends, which erases the uncertainty you felt at the time and makes past years, markets, and eras look easier than they were.
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Ango shares the 40 questions he answers at the end of every year, from what you did for the first time to what you want next year, noting that the real value is the trends that show up across years.
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- Beautiful vs. Practical AdviceMorgan Housel
Libera argues that sitcoms can hold life lessons as real as those in books, and walks through the moments from Community that shaped how she sees her own life.
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- Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meetHenrik Karlsson
- Letter to JackChris Oakman
- First we shape our social graph; then it shapes usHenrik Karlsson
- On feeling connectedHenrik Karlsson
Friedman's credo: reshape the world with technology, move fast because time is the denominator, keep teams small, empower great individuals, and distrust the efficient market.
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- 50 things I knowCate Hall
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skillBen Kuhn
- How to be more agenticCate Hall
Hall's 50 hard-won lessons on love, judgment, and agency, from caring about people who don't care back to doing the tasks you most want to avoid first and knowing when to quit.
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- How to be more agenticCate Hall
- Some Things I BelieveNat Friedman
- Gradient Descent ValleysSlava Akhmechet
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skillBen Kuhn
- NewEverything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson 13 min
How to apply Christopher Alexander's idea of unfolding to design a life that fits
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- PsychokineticsManav B. Ponnekanti
- What you could have beenBrian • The Tiny Wisdom
- On FailureSlava Akhmechet
Karlsson argues we absorb whatever milieu surrounds us, as historical geniuses absorbed the highly skilled adults around them, so you should deliberately curate both your influences and your audience.
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- Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meetHenrik Karlsson
- On feeling connectedHenrik Karlsson
- Letter to JackChris Oakman
- Seeds of Community: Unexpected Life Lessons From A SitcomAlma Libera
Karlsson argues, building on Erich Fromm, that giving is an act of potency rather than sacrifice, and that genuine care for others is how we generate connection.
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- Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meetHenrik Karlsson
- First we shape our social graph; then it shapes usHenrik Karlsson
- Letter to JackChris Oakman
- Seeds of Community: Unexpected Life Lessons From A SitcomAlma Libera
- NewSometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet★(favorite)Henrik Karlsson 10 min
Karlsson argues we misread people by judging surface interests in a single context, as he did for 15 years with his friend Torbjörn, whom he saw as funny rather than deeply responsive.
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- First we shape our social graph; then it shapes usHenrik Karlsson
- On feeling connectedHenrik Karlsson
- Letter to JackChris Oakman
- Seeds of Community: Unexpected Life Lessons From A SitcomAlma Libera
Housel argues we blame bad times on risk but credit good times to ourselves, though luck is just risk in reverse, so the best guard against entitlement is to be nicer the better things go.
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- Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meetHenrik Karlsson
- Letter to JackChris Oakman
Housel's uncomfortable self-audit questions, such as whose admired life is secretly miserable, which beliefs you hold only for tribal standing, and whether your ambition is really envy.
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- Makes You ThinkMorgan Housel
Housel's 2025 set of self-audit questions, such as how you'd define a good life without comparison, whose approval you're auditioning for, and which principles you'd drop if they stopped earning praise.
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Housel's convictions on money and behavior, from not needing to impress anyone as the best financial asset to expectations inflation, endurance as the key to success, and how ego and impatience override intelligence.
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Housel argues money works best as a tool for a better life rather than a status yardstick, and that how you spend reflects your history and often buys happiness only indirectly.
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Housel argues nostalgia comes from knowing how the story ends, which erases the uncertainty you felt at the time and makes past years, markets, and eras look easier than they were.
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- A Few Questions (2023)Morgan Housel
- A Few Questions (2025)Morgan Housel
- Beautiful vs. Practical AdviceMorgan Housel
- Makes You ThinkMorgan Housel
Housel compares much financial advice to magazine architects whose award-winning buildings leak, arguing that most people need simple, boring, practical plans rather than advice that sounds brilliant.
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- A Message From the Past (Thoughts on Nostalgia)Morgan Housel
- A Few Questions (2023)Morgan Housel
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- Makes You ThinkMorgan Housel
Housel argues the best strategy is the one that fits your personality, from talented bloggers who fizzled under media company style guides to investing and spending choices that suit you.
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- How I Think About DebtMorgan Housel
- Long-Term MoneyMorgan Housel
- My New Book: The Art of Spending MoneyMorgan Housel
Koe argues cognitive flexibility matters more than raw intelligence, describes three levels of thinking from scripted NPC to self-aware programmer, and prescribes daily habits of questioning, curating, reading, and creating.
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- 40 questions to ask yourself every yearSteph Ango
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Housel argues that more debt narrows the range of life's shocks you can survive, which is why Japan's centuries-old shinise businesses hold lots of cash and no debt, and why flexibility is worth protecting.
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- My New Book: The Art of Spending MoneyMorgan Housel
Housel argues that kids looking spoiled by past standards is often the point of their parents' hard work, since each generation's easier life just frees it to worry about higher-order problems.
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- My New Book: The Art of Spending MoneyMorgan Housel
Housel collects lines on history, risk, and wisdom, from Sebastian Junger on people needing to feel necessary to Amos Tversky on staying a little underemployed to do good research.
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- A Message From the Past (Thoughts on Nostalgia)Morgan Housel
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Housel introduces The Art of Spending Money and its core ideas: money works best as a tool rather than a status yardstick, buys happiness only indirectly, and is spent best by those who stop thinking about it.
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Lamade argues our poor grasp of odds fuels needless stress, since 25,000 valedictorians compete for about 15,000 Ivy seats, yet ignoring the odds is fine when you love the pursuit itself.
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Housel argues independence, financial but also intellectual and moral, is one of life's highest goals, starting from his shy son's pride at buying ice cream alone and why doing things on your own terms feels so good.
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Lamade argues that significance, the quiet impact you have on people around you, matters more than success, drawing on a Cornell coach's speech and a gym teacher who built confidence in small kids for decades.
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- Letter to JackChris Oakman
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Housel collects lines on wealth, happiness, and self-deception, from Ernest Dimnet on small destructive habits to Will Durant calling insecurity the mother of greed.
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Housel collects lines on judgment, humility, and happiness, from Albert Lasker's humility in the presence of a good idea to Jensen Huang on how high expectations destroy resilience.
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- Beautiful vs. Practical AdviceMorgan Housel
Housel argues that huge outcomes grow from small early bases, showing that about 97% of Buffett's fortune traces to the capital he built as a teenager, just as ice ages start from one summer's leftover snow.
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Lamade argues the imperfect moments are the ones we remember, from his father's habit of buying the first flawed Christmas tree he sees, and asks what we lose by smoothing every flaw out of life.
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- Significance > SuccessTed Lamade
- Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meetHenrik Karlsson
- Letter to JackChris Oakman
- Seeds of Community: Unexpected Life Lessons From A SitcomAlma Libera
Taking a cue from Munger's advice to avoid obvious disasters, Housel writes a list of very bad advice, such as letting expectations outgrow income and judging others at their worst and yourself at your best.
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Housel collects short historical stories about luck, uncertainty, and hidden effort, from Henry Ford turning Model T scrap wood into Kingsford charcoal to Chris Rock testing jokes in small clubs before a tour.
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Brian argues that small everyday choices compound into who you become, so pushing through hard moments is how you avoid looking back at the person you could have been.
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- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
- On FailureSlava Akhmechet
Brian argues that a good life isn't a universal template, so measuring yours against other people's milestones guarantees it never feels like enough.
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- 40 questions to ask yourself every yearSteph Ango
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Kuhn argues the people he admires most are great at thinking clearly about uncomfortable questions, like whether to pivot, quit, or break up, as Wave's CEO did through a dozen pivots, and offers ways to get better at it.
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signull argues the world now changes faster than advice can keep up, so inherited maps like get a stable job go stale, and you need your own radar for what is shifting right now.
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signull argues that real, absorbing fun is a more honest measure than money or prestige and the only sustainable fuel, so plan your days around what would make the work fun.
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- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
- What you could have beenBrian • The Tiny Wisdom
- On FailureSlava Akhmechet
Feeling stuck usually means a valley, not a local minimum: avoid volatile moves like quitting, build steady momentum, and take bigger steps in calm, promising directions.
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People respond to big failures by either consolidating lessons and moving up or hiding in humiliation, and the mode you land in is decided by habits built before the failure.
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- Gradient Descent ValleysSlava Akhmechet
- fun is the only metric that doesn’t liesignull
- PsychokineticsManav B. Ponnekanti
- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
Housel on why bad behavior makes sense with more information, how housing affordability drives social problems, why people fear AI after the internet, and why politics runs in cycles.
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- A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About (2023)Morgan Housel
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Housel's handful of ideas that shaped his thinking, including how tribes bend beliefs, why history repeats in behavior, why room for error is aggressive, and how personal experience skews your view.
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Housel's list of short rules on money, risk, and behavior, from keeping a gap between ego and income to fearing permanent damage far more than temporary harm.
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Housel's one-line observations on wealth, luck, and human nature, such as measuring wealth as what you have minus what you want and the value of not needing to impress anyone.
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- Little Rules About Big ThingsMorgan Housel
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Eliason argues most productivity systems are tool-sharpening that rarely improves the actual work, as a chef taught him about knife skills, so use the minimum scaffolding and fix tools only when work suffers.
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Eliason argues modern life atomizes rich activities into single efficient elements, like a Peloton ride instead of biking with friends, and that blending exercise, food, work, and friends back together makes life happier.
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- Letter to JackChris Oakman
- Seeds of Community: Unexpected Life Lessons From A SitcomAlma Libera
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Altman's 13 principles for outlier success, centered on compounding yourself, near-delusional self-belief, focus, hard work, owning equity instead of selling time, and being driven from within.
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Hunter Walk on why living below your means keeps your options open, letting you take risks and choose work you care about over the highest salary.
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Altman's 36 lessons from his twenties, from keeping close friends and a low burn rate to picking the right work, asking for what you want, and doing something new and risky every year.
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- fun is the only metric that doesn’t liesignull
Altman argues the goal is to care about others' opinions on a long time horizon rather than stop caring, trading short-term low status for long-term high status by being right about a non-consensus bet.
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Altman's 17 lessons on building things: optimism and obsession get them started, while cohesive teams, focused bets, and fast iteration get them finished.
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Paul Graham argues nerds are unpopular in school because they care more about being smart than popular, and because schools are artificial places with no real work to do.
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- NewCreate.Derek Sivers 4 min
A chapter from Sivers's How to Live arguing that the way to live is to create, finish what you start, and die with nothing left inside you.
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Chesky argues that repetition blurs memory while new experiences stretch it, which is why he remembers every childhood family trip but none of his 2,000 bus rides, so travel makes life feel longer.
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"Do what you love" is harder than it sounds; Graham unpacks how to tell real interest from prestige, money, and others' expectations when choosing your work.
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Having kids convinced Graham that life really is short, so the answer is to cut out the bullshit, avoid letting time slip by, and do what matters to you now.
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- PsychokineticsManav B. Ponnekanti
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Bensusan argues you should read people backwards from what they actually accomplish, since that reveals their real motivation, as he learned when he forgot the protein in his protein pudding.
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Ponnekanti argues the only reason that gets a stuck person moving is the feeling of motion itself, so the goal is two good days in a row, which gives you a trend worth defending.
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- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
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- On FailureSlava Akhmechet
A reflection on how friendships fade without a final conversation, why lost people still surface in ordinary moments, and how those who once mattered keep shaping who you are after contact ends.
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- Letter to JackChris Oakman
- Seeds of Community: Unexpected Life Lessons From A SitcomAlma Libera
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Sivers spent years learning to sing, produce, and program himself when shortcuts existed, because the point was to become those things, not just to have the results.
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- Ideas That Changed My LifeMorgan Housel
Carey argues you should judge every trade of time for money, from chasing discounts to hiring cleaners, against your personal hourly exchange rate, and asks readers to share dollar-per-hour estimates for common trades.
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Greenfeld argues life shrinks by default as habit pulls you toward the same places and people, so he expands it on purpose with several workplaces and a weekly mini-adventure from his Living Larger list.
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Greenfeld argues curiosity beats spreadsheets, prestige, and money as a guide to what to work on, since excitement is information and fuel, as David Perell found when chasing ambition led him into a writing slump.
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Kumar argues that copying successful people like Elon Musk fails because their habits only work in context and survivorship bias hides the rest, so the better bet is to be uniquely yourself.
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Greenfeld turns Naval's definition of retirement into a daily practice: hit work, exercise, learning, and social time every day, and bring holiday experiences into ordinary life.
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Greenfeld argues that doing more of what kind of works keeps you stuck at the same level, as indie hackers he hadn't seen in two years still were, and that 10x jumps require radically changing your approach.
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Eliason argues the real reason to take hard classes like calculus is to prove to yourself you can do hard things, since that track record shapes how capable you feel when new challenges arrive.
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Greenfeld argues that because every piece of success advice has an equally valid opposite, the skill is knowing when to use which, and that usefulness, even useful delusion, matters more than truth.
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- NewUpstream Productivity - or the day you stopped caring about productivity adviceJakob Greenfeld 2 min
Greenfeld argues productivity systems are mostly procrastination, since real output flows upstream from physical health and from working on things you truly care about.
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Eliason argues the word balance sets work against life when work is just one area of life, so the better goal is to integrate health, relationships, fun, and work so each supports the others.
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After quitting piano, a third language, and content creation for fear of being behind, janelle argues that regretting lost time only wastes more of it, so ask what you'd start today if being late didn't matter.
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Drawing on Nate Silver's On the Edge, Greenfeld argues successful people understand probability well enough to treat failures as inevitable, so they shrug them off and keep trying hundreds of times instead of three.
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Greenfeld treats vibes as a practical lens: things on your wavelength attract and influence you, so raise your state first, then notice which people, food, music, and work feel off.
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Greenfeld collects passages, mostly from John Vervaeke, arguing that suffering means losing agency rather than feeling pain, which is why addiction and even too much joy count as suffering.
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Charlie Munger's rules for a life that works, drawn from his 2007 USC Law commencement speech: deserve what you want, keep learning, invert problems, be reliable, avoid ideology and self-pity, and earn deserved trust.
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Sarris argues virtue lives in careful everyday acts rather than heroics, and that you should leave public breadcrumbs, like writing what you learn, so the right people, jobs, and partners can find you.
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Say no to anything you feel half-hearted about so you have the time and focus to go all in when something exciting comes along.
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Qureshi's 63 life principles, centered on moving fast, making many bets, putting yourself out there, and seeking environments and people that push you to your best work.
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Yeo argues the best life-decision rule is to collect bets with capped downside and uncapped upside, act fast on lucky breaks, and double down on what pays off, as when she chose a crypto startup over Google.
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Kevin Kelly's 101 new bits of life advice written for his 73rd birthday, from criticizing something by making something better to interviewing your parents while you can and being the last to let go of a hug.
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Patrick Collison's advice to his younger self, broken down by decade of life, starting with going deep on several subjects in your teens.
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An excerpt from Steve Jobs's 1996 Palo Alto High School graduation speech urging students to trust their intuitions about life over goal-driven, materialistic paths.
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A letter to a new high school graduate about adult life: what you repeat becomes who you are, starting with how you get along with the voice in your head.
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The story of a comfortable copywriter who never actually chose his life, and how most people drift into jobs, homes, and routines by default.
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Urban counts his remaining winters, books, and visits home and finds that by high school graduation he had already used up 93% of his in-person time with his parents, so time with loved ones deserves top priority.
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Paul Graham's answer to what a person should do with their life: help people, take care of the world, and make good new things.
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