A batch of the best highlights from what Christian's read, .
People are oddly consistent. Karma is just you, repeating your patterns, virtues, and flaws until you finally get what you deserve. Always pay it forward. And don’t keep count.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss
I’ve come up with this rule of thumb for uncreative forks: I go with the one whose outcome is more unpredictable. For instance, if I have a simultaneous urge to go for a nap and go for a walk, I go for a walk, because my mental state at the end of a walk is usually less predictable than after a nap. The chances are higher that something good will come of a walk. The heuristic works because non-creative activities are more predictable, but not in a good way: they tend to predictably put you in a worse (more entropic) state, from where you can do less. They exhaust you physically and emotionally, in a state of dysphoria. Creative work by contrast, might exhaust you physically, but tends to leave you mentally stimulated and euphoric.
The Four Seasons of Lifehacking
tempobook.com
Spending as little as 15 minutes (1% of your day) on improving how you do your thing, is the most powerful way to amplify and advance your thing.