issue #1

the curse of solutionism, time management for mortals, the answer is not more information

Jan 09, 2023

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HOT LINKS IN OUR UNIVERSE

Web 3 & the curse of solutionism by Jason Choi

Being decentralized / having a token does not absolve you from the requirements beset upon scaling a product people actually want to use. In fact, the considerable frictions of using a crypto backend means it’s likely harder, as you must make up for the UX shortfall by delivering a product that’s 10x better than its centralized counterparts.

🕺 Curated in Web 3.0, Metaverse & Product Design

4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Cosmic insignificance therapy is an invitation to face the truth about your irrelevance in the grand scheme of things. To embrace it, to whatever extent you can. (Isn’t it hilarious, in hindsight, that you ever imagined things might be otherwise?) Truly doing justice to the astonishing gift of a few thousand weeks isn’t a matter of resolving to “do something remarkable” with them. In fact, it entails precisely the opposite: refusing to hold them to an abstract and overdemanding standard of remarkableness, against which they can only ever be found wanting, and taking them instead on their own terms, dropping back down from godlike fantasies of cosmic significance into the experience of life as it concretely, finitely—and often enough, marvelously—really is.

🕺 Curated in Time Management & Personal Development

What's going on here, with this human by Graham Duncan

Seeing people clearly—or at least more clearly—matters not just when finding the “best” hire, but in identifying the best role for them. Even looking at those of us who are lucky enough to have a high degree of choice about what we do with our work, I’ll bet that as few as 20% of us are in the seat that best optimizes our talents and skills at any given time—the seat that makes us feel at home in the world. That’s not good for the 80%, and it’s not good for their teams either.

🕺 Curated in Hiring Advice

The Answer is Not More Information by L.M. Sacasas

Believing that everything will be better if only we gather more information commits us to endless searching and casting about, to one more swipe of the screen in the hope that the elusive bit of data, which will make everything clear, will suddenly present itself. From one angle, this is just another symptom of reducing our experience of the world to the mode of consumption.

💃 Curated in Tech and Society

Tim Ferriss interviews Mark Zuckerberg on Building the Metaverse, Long-term strategy, Parenting, and Personal Energy Management

One of the things that I’ve always found is you can … get an organization and a team through almost any challenge as long as you can maintain good cohesion. When our stock price goes down, that doesn’t make me not sleep at night. When there’s a new competitor, that doesn’t make me not sleep at night. If there’s an issue on my team and there isn’t good cohesion, then I’m not sleeping well until I resolve that.

🕺 Curated in Metaverse , Parenting, Virtual Reality , Management & Founder Mindset

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way.

🕺 Curated in Storytelling , Death Care & The Wellness Economy