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It’s Been a Long Time . . . and You Are Fat “If you are overweight and you get off the plane [in India], the first thing your family is going to say is ‘Wow, you got fat.’” TF: If you want to be this brutally honest in the U.S., I suggest first reading my friend A.J. Jacobs’s Esquire piece titled “I Think You’re Fat.”
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
So it goes, over and over again. Change is viewed as a movement from bad to good, defined and initiated by someone other than the one who is making the change. It is done in a judgmental context that usually brings with it resistance, doubt, and fear of failure on the part of the student. Neither student nor teacher is likely to be aware that this approach to change undermines the student’s innate eagerness and responsibility for learning. They may struggle with the inherent contradictions in this approach, but it is usually the only way they know.
The Inner Game of Work
W. Timothy Gallwey
Typically a business tries to make moneyWhat is the point of a business? If you’re Elon Musk, it's to fill that deep hole inside of you that can never be made whole no matter how many followers you have. If you’re Mark Zuckerberg, it is to prepare the way for our lizard overlords to control the government. If you’re Evan Spiegel, it is to pay yourself lots of money. As others on Twitter have pointed out, the company has given out $7.8B in stock-based compensation while simultaneously posting -$9.2B in net income.
Snap’s Probably Screwed
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