discipline
Doing the work when you do not feel like it: whether showing up is the whole secret, or systems and enjoyment beat willpower.
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Brad DeLong quoted
Economics professor at the University of California
Their wordsTrump's approval has had some news-driven spikes. But the overall trend has been quite persistently downward.
- 10 days earlier
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsI think doing the same thing with the mind is totally possible and affirmations are the easiest way to do it
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 17th of 26 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
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Dean W. Ball quoted
Head of strategic futures at OpenAI
Their wordsAgents will need persistent, unique identifiers that allow their actions to be traced back to a responsible actor. Doing this successfully will also require human users to possess a unique identifier.
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Ajeya Cotra quoted
AI researcher and grantmaker
Their wordsso so yeah, it could be possible now. I think if it's not possible now um it I think it's quite likely to be possible within six months unless there's a dramatic improvement in the security posture
↗Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"youtube.com 13th of 26 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
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Ralph Adolphs quoted
Bren Professor of Psychology
Their wordsSo, I thought this was a really cool study because it showed very clearly that there is temporal persistence in emotions and sadness probably has one of the longest time constants as we know from personal experience. But it's separate from just declarative memory.
↗Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphsyoutube.com 3rd of 22 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
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Josh Barro quoted
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics
Their wordsthe increasing unreasonableness of an electorate that wants all its groceries in one bag and also doesn't want the bag to be heavy is a primary driver behind permanently low approval of politicians in both parties
↗Permanent Daylight Saving Time Is the Perfect Stupid Idea for Our Stupid Timejoshbarro.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 8 days earlier
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Adam Mosseri quoted
Head of Instagram since 2018
Their wordsBecause if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.
↗The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com 3rd of 20 in this recording
- 4 days earlier
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swyx quoted
Writer and developer
Their wordsincreasingly I see America as the place that rewards first principles thinkers and builders; that asks "why not?" instead of telling you why you cannot; that imperfectly supports optimism, reinvention and perseverance in spite of cynicism.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Sasha Chapin quoted
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves
Our readingA person cannot expect to find lasting balance between conflicting parts of their psychology.
Their wordsThere's no reason to believe that you will find persistent balance between these conflicting elements of your psychology.
↗Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
- 2 days earlier
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Adam Grant quoted
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School
Their wordsHave the courage to share important ideas and rigorous evidence even when people find them upsetting, and do the right thing especially when no one is watching.
↗Silence Is Not Necessarily Violenceadamgrant.substack.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
- ER
Eric Ries quoted
Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible
Their wordsharder is easier is a principle that says if you're willing to do the work upfront to commit to quality, to design, to ethics, to integrity, to safety, whatever the thing, I don't want to tell you what your values are, you tell me what they are. If you're willing to be principled in your decision-making, you will get these unexpected rewards.
↗How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Riesyoutube.com 9th of 24 in this recording
- 3 weeks earlier
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Kyle Kingsbury quoted
Distributed-systems safety researcher
Their wordsML assistance reduces our performance and persistence, and denies us both the muscle memory and deep theory-building that comes with working through a task by hand
↗The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?aphyr.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
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Sanjay Bakshi quoted
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance…
Their wordsIn other words, the mathematics of rising dividend yields, necessarily generate capital appreciation.
↗The Misunderstood Role of Dividends in Long-term Stock Returnsfundooprofessor.wordpress.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
- AK
Arvid Kahl quoted
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold…
Their wordsI have a strong feeling Claude Code will adopt this methodology eventually into the main loop.
↗How to Actually Use Claude Code to Build Serious Softwarethebootstrappedfounder.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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James Clear quoted
Writer on habits and decision-making
Their wordsBecause if it's not fun, if it's not engaging or interesting, if it doesn't feel good, you're not going to stick with it when it gets tough. I mean, this is probably one of the great lessons for life, which is if you're having fun, then then you're dangerous, right? Then you're hard to compete with. You don't want to you don't want to go up against the person who's having a good time doing it because if it feels like a hassle or a chore, that's the person who gives up when it gets difficult.
↗The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clearyoutube.com 10th of 16 in this recording
- 3 months earlier
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Pavel Durov quoted
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK
Their wordsI think the main muscle you can exercise is this muscle, the muscle of self-discipline. Not your biceps or your pecs or anything else. Because if you get to train that one, everything else just comes by itself.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 6th of 28 in this recording
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Pavel Durov quoted
Their wordsYeah, I think overabundance paralyzes motivation and willpower. It's extremely harmful, particularly for young boys, to grow up in an environment where they can be proud, not of their own achievements, but of their father's achievements or their father's wealth.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 24th of 28 in this recording
- 3 months earlier
- LA
Lyn Alden quoted
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy
Their wordsBitcoin is not going to catch on as a charity. In order for spending it to catch on persistently at scale (i.e. not just billions of dollar-equivalents in annual global medium-of-exchange volume, but trillions), it has to solve problems for spenders and/or recipients that other solutions are not doing.
↗The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bondslynalden.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Samuel Hammond quoted
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation
Their wordsPersistent U.S. trade deficits are an epiphenomenal mirror to our persistent capital account surpluses, which are in turn downstream of the beggar-thy-neighbor industrial policies of countries like China and Germany.
↗The Strategy Behind the Stupiditysecondbest.ca 1st of 2 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsHaving the grit to stick with the effort when the going gets hard is a key trait of successful people.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Lyn Alden quoted
Our readingThe United States is not at risk of a financial crisis caused by the size of its government debt.
Their wordsStabilizing factors such as the global demand for U.S. dollars and debt denominated in its own currency suggest an era of fiscal dominance in the U.S. that's less dramatic than alarmists predict but more persistent and intractable than optimists hope.
↗Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominancelynalden.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Casey Handmer quoted
Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Their wordsThis is symptomatic of an agency who, compromising their technical integrity on their flagship program, subsequently lost the ability to maintain technical integrity anywhere else.
↗SLS is still a national disgracecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsThe reason the persistent and the obstinate seem similar is that they're both hard to stop. But they're hard to stop in different senses. The persistent are like boats whose engines can't be throttled back. The obstinate are like boats whose rudders can't be turned.
↗The Right Kind of Stubbornpaulgraham.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsThe persistent are attached to the goal. The obstinate are attached to their ideas about how to reach it.
↗The Right Kind of Stubbornpaulgraham.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsBut resilience is not the same as obstinacy. Resilience means setbacks can't change your morale, not that they can't change your mind. Indeed, persistence often requires that one change one's mind.
↗The Right Kind of Stubbornpaulgraham.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsFive distinct qualities — energy, imagination, resilience, good judgement, and focus on a goal — combine to produce a phenomenon that seems a bit like obstinacy in the sense that it causes you not to give up.
↗The Right Kind of Stubbornpaulgraham.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 8 months earlier
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Olivier Blanchard quoted
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund
Their wordsIt is fair to say that, while economists expected the short end of the yield curve to reflect the higher rates needed to win the fight against inflation, the sharply steeper long end of the yield curve in the last few months has come as a surprise. I shall freely admit that I did not predict it.
↗If markets are right about long real rates, public debt ratios will increase for some timepiie.com
- 6 months earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our readingBeing an underdog is an ethos
Their wordsbeing an underdog is an ethos: Drive. Grit. Scrappiness. Independence
- 9 months earlier
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Davis Kedrosky quoted
Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution
Our readingIn persistence studies of a historical shock, the estimated effect tends to attenuate over time.
Their wordsthis is basically a persistence paper, so effects tend to attenuate over time
↗The Gentry Strikes Backblog.daviskedrosky.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 8 days earlier
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsKnowing this research, I should have emphasized the possibility that Gamestop would stay overpriced for a long time.
↗Four things I got wrong since I started this blognoahpinion.blog
The line under a date fills as the words age, a quarter at a time: past a month, six months, a year, and three years. Empty means said within the last month; full, more than three years ago. It says when, not whether it still holds — a change of mind is marked on the claim itself.
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