Read less, learn more. Discover, save, and share takeaways.
Make a conscious effort to maintain a constant relationship with God. This means integrating prayer, scripture reading, and spiritual reflection into your daily routine to stay connected to Christ.
Direct response marketing is the small business advantage.
Tidy in the recommended sequence: clothes, books, papers, komono (miscellaneous items), and sentimental items. This builds decision-making skills and prevents overwhelm.
Neuroticism, or the tendency to be anxious, stressed, critical, and moody , is far more predictive of relationship unhappiness and dissolution than is personal ity dissimilarity.
It is always a writer’s duty to make the world better.
Sympathy identifies an objective problem and seeks an objective solution.
Anchoring effect: when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity, and when estimating, people stay close to that first value considered.
When you spend time that way, Netflix or HBO has your attention—not your spouse.
Avatars are the marketing equivalent of method acting.
A rational (and risk-averse) investor should pay a higher price for a share, other things equal, the less risky the company’s stock.
A winning idea: It must solve a common problem.
China’s leaders have identified their reliance on foreign chipmakers as a critical vulnerability.
Focus on the less negative aspects of situations and find a middle ground.
This is the synergy that comes through a complementary approach—an approach in which one person’s strength is utilized and his or her weaknesses are made irrelevant by the strength of another.
When you really want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it. This happens because your desire is originated in the soul of the world.
I decided I wanted to be one of the people who knew what was really going on. When my work was done, I read the stories on the wire services. Because we never subscribed to newspapers or magazines, I'd never known what was going on in the world, except for the skewed version of events we got from Mom and Dad.
The chapter indicts mass media for glamorizing domination because producers both inhabit patriarchy and misrepresent love as mystified ignorance rather than informed intimacy. By severing love from knowledge, popular narratives normalize silence about bodies, needs, and boundaries, which erodes the competence required for care. The contrarian move here is not censorship but market discipline and craft improvement: if image‑makers worked from a love ethic, they would study love’s realities, hire consultants when unfamiliar with the terrain, and assess cultural impact as part of creative responsibility. Because consumers fund this ecosystem, the author argues we can redirect attention and money toward depictions of mutuality; given that “we are all affected by the images we consume,” shifting demand is a practical lever with outsized cultural returns.
At the end of each day, write down three things you’re thankful for, no matter how small they seem, to rewire your brain to seek the good and godly in all circumstances.
For every lie you uncover, create a corresponding truth statement rooted in Scripture or positive affirmations; repeat these truths daily until they become ingrained beliefs.
Ousterhout introduces the concept of 'deep' and 'shallow' modules. Deep modules provide powerful functionality through simple interfaces, effectively hiding significant implementation complexity. For example, the Unix file I/O system, with its five basic system calls, is a deep module because it offers extensive functionality while keeping the interface simple. In contrast, shallow modules have complex interfaces relative to the functionality they provide, adding little value in managing complexity. Ousterhout criticizes the tendency to create numerous small, shallow classes and methods, a practice he terms 'classitis.' This approach increases overall system complexity by introducing many interfaces that developers must learn and manage.
