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What scares me today: – Corporations controlling the Internet. The most powerful tool on the planet. – A third of America still supports Trump. These people will always be a social burden. – Living to see life extension become a thing but being too old to take advantage of it.

"Comparison is the thief of joy." — Theodore Roosevelt

As with all productivity tricks, the challenge isn't understanding how to implement this advice. It's implementing it consistently.

I project my circumstances onto a friend and act out being coldly rational about bringing them from A to Z while taking nothing for granted.

I am better at solving other people's problems than my own. For them, I'm coldly objective. So, now I pretend my probs are others'. Works

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." — Seneca

It's so much easier to provide constructive criticism on someone's creative output than it is to produce that imperfect creative output.

On developing products: "If dogs don't like your dog food, the packaging doesn’t matter." – Stephen Denny

Elon Musk at TED 2017: "I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”

When you focus on traits over experience, you build a team you'd love to work with forever. But you must produce great training materials.

If you're hiring for a role anyone can master with 3mo of training, don't hire based on experience. Hire the best all-around fit then train.