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Every time you hear yourself say, 'I can’t,' dive in and ask, 'Why? What are the reasons I can’t?
Use the Investment Phase to set up external triggers that will prompt users to return to the product. For example, integrate calendar notifications or reminders that align with users' schedules and needs.
The miserable governor, intoxicated with power, was counting the strokes on his fingers, and never left off smoking cigarettes, while several officious persons hastened on every opportunity to offer him a burning match to light them.
All feelings can be accepted but certain actions must be restricted.
Soon China’s government declared that “science and technology” were “the crux of the Four Modernizations.” The rest of the world was being transformed by a technological revolution, and China’s scientists realized that chips were at the core of this change.
You should stop trying to “see the whole” and instead design conditions for emergence: use the index only as a handful of entry points and let meaning form through note-to-note links where surprise happens. The system works because most notes are found through other notes, not through exhaustive tags, which forces you into a fact-based dialogue that reveals gaps only when you linearize for a draft. This network posture enables weak ties to spark insight (cf. Granovetter 1973) and, by repeatedly revisiting and connecting notes, it exposes duplicates, differences, contradictions, and paradoxes that drive progress rather than the illusion of novelty; it also counters the feature-positive effect and recency bias by resurfacing long-forgotten but relevant material (Allison and Messick 1988; Newman, Wolff, and Hearst 1980). The trade-off is that you abandon the comfort of a global map, but you gain a living structure that both mirrors and disciplines your thinking.
Focus on getting the right people in the right roles. This sets a strong foundation for future success and allows for effective handling of changes and challenges.
An ounce of screening is better than a pound of cure.
He centers self-revelation not on power or demand but on heart, redefining the core lens for understanding him as his deepest, most natural disposition toward people. By treating heart as the animating center of intent and action, he advances a contrarian framework: theology should begin with who he is at his core—gentle and lowly—rather than with what we fear he might do. This heart-first lens resists caricatures of cold sovereignty or distant holiness by insisting that compassion is not a mood he occasionally enters but the posture he most readily adopts toward need.
Judgment results in tightness, and tightness interferes with the fluidity required for accurate and quick movement.
At bottom we discover nothing new and unknown in the mentally ill; rather, we encounter the substratum of our own natures.
We shall slow time
The Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.
The point that Bergson made about the future – that it’s more appealing than the present because you get to indulge in all your hopes for it, even if they contradict each other – is no less true of fantasy romantic partners, who can easily exhibit a range of characteristics that simply couldn’t coexist in one person in the real world.
Imitate his posture in one concrete scenario this week: first, identify a person weighed down by failure or grief; second, move toward them within 24 hours with one gentle, non-fixing question (“How are you holding up?”); third, offer a small act of shared burden (a task, a meal, or quiet presence) and a word that relieves rather than loads (“You don’t have to carry this alone”). Expect increased trust and reduced shame because you mirror the very heart you receive. This is not permissiveness: if sin is involved, name it clearly but remain near, embodying mercy’s nearness before moral advice, which aligns with the pattern his beauty models.
Innovation can be in how you market or deliver, not just in products themselves.
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
The mind does not act like a separate entity telling you what you should do or criticizing how you do it. It is quiet; you are 'together,' and the action flows as free as a river.
Divide large tasks into smaller, reusable units to reduce overwhelm and enhance productivity and creativity.
The real rule for forming questions does not look for the first occurrence of the auxiliary word as one goes from left to right in the string; it looks for the auxiliary that comes after the phrase labeled as the subject.
