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One is our attention span has gone through the floor because we’re hit with so much information all the time. We want to skip, summarize, and cut to the chase. Twitter has made me a worse reader but a much better writer. On the other hand, we’re also taught from a young age to finish your books. Books are sacred—when you go to school and you’re assigned to read a book, you have to finish the book. Over time, we forget how to read books. Everyone I know is stuck on some book.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss

Bimodal distribution: everyone is either too small or too big with nothing in the middle (accounting firms). It’s too hard to cross the chasm so you either get stuck doing tons of small deals or chasing whales (combination of #1 and #2).

99% Derisible | Yoni Rechtman | Substack

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All in all, social isolation is not good for us, and we should make every effort to avoid it. Being social and having friends carries many psychological and health benefits. Friendship protects us against disease as well as cognitive decline, allows us to be more engaged with the tasks that we have to do, and helps us become more embedded within, and trusting of, the wider community within which we live.

Friends

Robin Dunbar

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