[If someone's persuading you to buy something, you probably don't need it.]
[If someone's persuading you to buy something, you probably don't need it.]
[If you have no solution, the problem is already solved.]
Neither closed nor with expectations. To be open without attachment to specific outcomes.
[When making a complicated point, start with an example. When making a very complicated point, start with many examples.]
[Republicans don't really care about medical marijuana for its own sake: opposing it is a way to affirm membership in their tribe.]
[Trumps Law: when convincing people who are notoriously inconvincable, use tribal signals to sound like your one of them.]
[Bring up and diffuse counterarguments before your opponents.]
[When writing for a hostile audience, evaluate each sentence for how it sounds taken out of context so as to be prepared when someone eventually does this.]
I don't need to wait for the right moment or be in a special position. Bringing myself to a state is itself the process. I can always pause, reflect, observe.
[Use municipal infrastructure, like libraries, as hosts for technological infrastructure and points of access to federated systems.]
[Go together through every single feature and every button that can be pressed.]
[Welcome new people to the social media instance as you would at your house party: saying a few words about them, introduce them to everyone.]
[Convincing individuals to switch is nearly impossible because of network effects. Bring the whole community over instead: this way they already know many people.]
Being result-oriented puts value on finishing, and so everything not 'finished' accumulates more dissatisfaction and stress. Being process-oriented puts value on movement, and so every opportunity, even the smallest one, is cause to celebrate.
Finishing is binary.
The passage of time affords reflection, which can decrease the likelihood of following through on bad ideas.
Esa noche, en la cena, el supuesto Aureliano Segundo desmigajó el pan con la mano derecha y comó la sopa con la izquierda. Su hermano gemelo, el supuesto José Arcadio Segundo, desmigajó el pan con la mano izquierda y tomó la sopa con la derecha. Era tan precisa la coordinación de sus movimientos que no parecían dos hermanos sentados el uno frente al otro, sino un artificio de espejos.