Mind
Quote of the day by Helen Mirren: “When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re 60, nothing seems ancient.”
"When you're 16, 30 seems ancient.
Mind
The difference between people who keep moving forward in life and those who stall sometimes isn’t talent, luck, or hard work. It’s the habits they choose to say goodbye to.
A friend of mine, mid-thirties, used to answer every email within minutes.
Mind
I’m 35 and for most of my adult life I confused motivation with discipline, and I wasted years waiting to “feel ready” before doing things that only ever needed me to just start
It's 11:47 on a Tuesday night and I am, once again, "researching" instead of writing.
AI
Why self-taught generalists may dominate as AI rewrites the rules of work
Last year, I was catching up with an old friend over a round of golf.
AI
Research suggests people entering the workforce today are on track to hold roughly twice as many jobs over their careers as people 15 years ago, and 70% of skills used in most jobs may change by 2030
People entering the workforce today are on track to hold roughly twice as many jobs over their careers as people did 15 years ago.
Technology
No one expected the generation born into technology to be so cautious of AI. Are Gen Z onto something older generations are missing?
There's something deeply counterintuitive buried in some recent Gallup figures, and I think it's worth sitting with for a moment.
Mind
Nobody talks about why so many men quietly end up with no close friends, and it isn’t that they stopped caring, it’s often that the friendships were built around shared activities, and once the team, the job, or the season ended, nobody knew how to just call
According to the Survey Center on American Life's 2021 American Perspectives Survey, the share of American men reporting no close friends rose from 3% in 1990 to 15% in 2021. That's a fivefold jump in a single generation.