“We are so deeply enmeshed in the mental state of “wanting,” we cannot shift to a state of “having.””
19 Feb 2026 at 9:33 pm
The Mountain is You
Brianna Wiest
“Intuitive thoughts help you in the present. They give you information that you need to make a better-informed decision. Intruding thoughts are often random and have nothing to do with what’s going on in the moment.”
19 Feb 2026 at 8:58 pm
The Mountain is You
Brianna Wiest
“It is essential that you learn to take action before you feel like doing it. Taking action builds momentum and creates motivation. These feelings will not come to you spontaneously; you have to generate them.”
8 Feb 2026 at 9:19 pm
The Mountain is You
Brianna Wiest
“There is no fire like lust. There is no grip like hate. There is no net like delusion. There is no river like craving.”
13 Jan 2026 at 9:07 pm
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
Walpola Rahula
“Fools, men of little intelligence, give themselves over to negligence, but the wise man protects his diligence as a supreme treasure.”
13 Jan 2026 at 8:52 pm
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
Walpola Rahula
“‘There are six perils in idleness: A man says, it is too cold, and does no work. He says, it is too hot, and does no work; he says, it is too early . . . too late, and does no work. He says, I am too hungry, and does no work. . . too full, and does no work. And while all that he should do remains undone, he makes no money, and such wealth as he has dwindles away.”
13 Jan 2026 at 8:48 pm
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
Walpola Rahula
“‘There are, young householder, these six dangers of drink: the actual loss of wealth; increase of quarrels; susceptibility to disease; an evil reputation; indecent exposure; ruining one’s intelligence.”
13 Jan 2026 at 8:47 pm
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
Walpola Rahula
“Your headline should promise a benefit, or deliver news, or offer a service, or tell a significant story, or recognize a problem, or quote a satisfied customer.”
16 Dec 2025 at 8:10 pm
Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy
“the key to improving productivity and performance might be to occasionally do nothing at all. Or, at least, not dive into a screen. It prompts us to think distinctly, in a way that delivers more original ideas.”
4 Nov 2025 at 9:35 pm
The Comfort Crisis
Michael Easter
“ ‘It is my bad luck that this has happened to me.’ No, you should rather say: ‘It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, I can bear it without pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearful of the future.’ Because such a thing could have happened to any man, but not every man could have borne it without pain.”
30 Oct 2025 at 7:06 am
Meditations (tr.Martin Hammond) (Penguin Classics)
Marcus Aurelius
“Men seek retreats for themselves – in the country, by the sea, in the hills – and you yourself are particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is quite unphilosophic, when it is open to you, at any time you want, to retreat into yourself. No retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation than that into his own mind, especially if he can dip into thoughts there which put him at immediate and complete ease: and by ease I simply mean a well-ordered life. So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself. The doctrines you will visit there should be few and fundamental, sufficient at one meeting to wash away all your pain and send you back free of resentment at what you must rejoin.”
9 Jul 2025 at 8:14 pm
Meditations (tr.Martin Hammond) (Penguin Classics)
Marcus Aurelius
“Will children born today experience as much change as children born a century ago”
27 May 2025 at 7:35 pm
Boom
Byrne Hobart
Tobias Huber
“This is justice, this is the law of the cosmos,” she wrote to employees. “If you rely on unfair means to seek illegal gains, you will eventually vomit back up what you ate—indeed, more than you ate.”
26 May 2025 at 8:25 pm
House of Huawei
Eva Dou
“Burnett had always been an aggressive salesman; in Dianne Burnett’s memoir, she describes her ex-husband upselling a client at Face so hard that the man had a seizure.”
18 May 2025 at 8:30 pm
Cue the Sun!
Emily Nussbaum
“If we let third parties project their preferred version of our reality onto our retinas, how can we sustain a common foundation of what we collectively believe about the world around us? And if we allow others direct access to our brains, how will we know where a thought originated and whether it’s truly ours?”
3 Apr 2025 at 7:11 pm
Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
Sandra Matz
“Since human needs are finite, but human greed is not, economic growth can usually be maintained through artificial creation of needs by means of advertising. The goods that are produced and sold in this way are often unneeded, and thus are essentially waste.”
15 Mar 2025 at 4:24 pm
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Fritjof Capra
“The reason why we sometimes want purely nonsensical things is that in our stupidity we see in those nonsensical things the easiest way to the attainment of some already proposed advantage.”
23 Feb 2025 at 3:56 pm
Notes from Underground and The Double
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Good product managers take written positions on important issues (competitive silver bullets, tough architectural choices, tough product decisions, and markets to attack or yield). Bad product managers voice their opinions verbally and lament that the “powers that be” won’t let it happen.”
19 Feb 2025 at 9:56 pm
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Horowitz, Ben
“Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?”
9 Feb 2025 at 9:35 pm
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Horowitz, Ben