The Money Expert: "Do Not Buy A House!"
[The same skills applied in a different market can yield more lucrative returns—try to be intentional about that.]
[When I'm feeling good, I show up. When I'm feeling bad, I still show up. That's the rep.]
[You can't judge someone by their reaction to a situation they've never experienced.]
Why You're Thinking About Unemployment Wrong
[The economy is what enables masses of people who don't know each other to coordinate and push the possibilities of society.]
[Prices are the language that businesses use to communicate to consumers.]
Margaret Atwood on American Myths and Authoritarianism
[In a material world, being poor goes beyond what you have to include being undervalued and therefore treated as negligible. The more equal people are in terms of what they have, the happier they will be.]
Scott Galloway: We’re Raising The Most Unhappy Generation In History! Hard Work Doesn't Build Wealth
[Information asymmetry benefits whoever has symmetry and knows the information. Bosses know how much everyone is getting paid but may discourage talking about salaries to avoid someone finding out their colleague makes 30% more for the same work.]
[Everyone you're ashamed to ask for fear of rejection will be dead. Willingness to take uncomfortable risks and endure rejection opens yourself up to outsized returns. Get out a spoon and eat shit.]
[Think of the emotions you want them to feel and practice it every day in your content storytelling.]
Why Labour and Trump will both fail
[Money is not a real resource like food or housing; it's used to determining the allocation of real resources.]
[Market downturns are more the norm than exception, yet bull market gains often make up for them in multiples.]
Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show!
[Growing up in abusive households make you sensitive to your environment to the point where I knew by the sound of his footsteps whether or not my stepfather was coming home drunk.]
[You'll be surprised at how often your 'screw them' choice reflects something you perhaps need to be doing more of.]
[Nudging people towards your conclusion while making them think they arrived there themselves will keep them resistant to questioning their basis for belief.]
[Conspiracism is more invested in the issues of specific leaders (bad satan worshippers) than the structure of power itself.]
[The face of Jesus and Mary may be commonly found on toast and fruit in Christian nations, wheras the name of Allah might be found on cantaloupe skins in Indonesia.]
['Is it possible that…' has a very low barrier for proof.]
[One function of the 'satanic ritual abuse' conspiracy is to deny that sexual violence is banal and that culture empowers men to do it.]
Who do you trust (when you don’t trust the news)?
[If manufacturers of cars bear some responsibility for your private vehicle's safety issues, as airplane manufacturers would if flights put people in danger, perhaps so should social media companies for presenting alternative realities that lead to real world catastrophes.]
[Clients don't value your effort or service as much as how it makes them feel or the possibilities it opens for them, so charge who's willing to pay for that.]
254: Language Transfer with Mihalis Eleftheriou
[We tend to teach by showing but that's not always what's most effective; dogs and cats do that too. Sometimes it's better to explain with words what is helpful for the learner.]
[We're already translating thoughts into language.]
[Xenophobia that occurs naturally as a brain resonse needs help and solutions more than ostracizing, and learning the foreign language can be super helpful there.]
[All grief is one: like touching the ocean at any of the imaginary lines we've drawn, it's all one body of water.]
[When my partner senses that I'm holding back grief and invites me with a simple gesture like a hand on the shoulder, it's hard to meet them there but I try to anyway, because to say "no worries, everything's fine" would be to negate their good instincts for how I'm feeling.]
[I appreciate things that make me cry because they give me the chance to shed a few more of the tears repressed during childhood, when I had learned that doing so was dangerous.]
Erin Kissane leaving the internet
[Pretender technologies may only appear to be the next thing, without eventually changing anything, but they can function as a playspace to try possible futures.]
[If we want better networks, we must concretely understand what happened to us, and then use that knowledge to try new things deliberately, with painstaking attention to the human cost.]
[When someone asks 'why' after you respond to their request with 'no, you can say "it's not what's best for me right now", "it's outside my focus right now", "I need to make another choice".]
How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence
[When you feel the tightening up and defensiveness that comes with someone trying to 'prove' or 'persuade' their perspective, consider focusing on what question to ask so that you can learn something.]
[Feeling triggered is a prompt to understand what provoked it.]
Peanut butter soya cucumber salad
Tagged: recipe.
Poncianinho’s Vlog 8 “Other Side”
[The sun made me want to practice.]
[Advice should be like snow: the more gentle it falls, the longer it stays.]
Tagged: capoeira.
The road to mastery 1 by Mestre Poncianinho
[Learn to be comfortable with getting motivated to work when you plateau and not give up.]
Let’s make homemade oat milk! 🥣🥛☕️
Tagged: recipe.
