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Curiosity: “I wonder what would happen if …” Imagination: “Gee, wouldn’t it be cool if … ?” Drive: “I will not accept ‘no.’ There has got to be a better way!”

Hacking Work

Bill Jensen and Josh Klein

it’s good [to gently fight this monocropping — by actively hunting around and foraging for stuff](https://medium.com/forge/9-ways-to-rewild-your-attention-d7c9334b6b90) to look at, read, and see that’s far afield, quirkier, and more niche.

The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat Obsessions

Clive Thompson

Public speech is easily reduced to an exercise in caricature, confected and boring, with the volume set too high. Amid this vast ado about nothing, it is little wonder that a decline in the standard of rhetoric is declared. But it is an illusion, and if public speech is boring the proper response is to be thankful.

When They Go Low, We Go High

Philip Collins

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