On Solvej Balle's spare, devastatingly precise meditations on love, and what it means to choose another person again and again across a lifetime of small acts.
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Sahil Bloom recounts meeting Tim Cook at a 4:45am gym routine in 2014 and observing how Cook maintained the same disciplined habits even after becoming Apple's CEO and achieving massive success. The piece argues that sustained excellence comes from returning to fundamentals and consistent execution, not from resting on achievement.
Shane Parrish on the conversations we have with ourselves — and how the quality of those internal dialogues quietly shapes the quality of everything we do.
The domains where rationality matters are domains where information is scarce, and the common wisdom of people around you is inadequate.
Rationality is for novel problems. On settled questions, copying consensus is faster and equally correct. The mistake is treating that as the whole game.