Also, books pack hundreds of hours of thought, while news articles pack maybe 1-2h. So the intensity of thought per minute of your time is much higher in books.
And ppl love news so much that the valuable ones will reach you no matter what. No news to waste your time going to a news portal every day.
Note that @neilpatel doesn’t say he reads the news, but rather blogs / insta / yt
Some of them are amazing and you learn a ton. But you gotta be careful.
YT/IG are optimized not for your edification, but for your attention. That’s how you get videos like Plandemics
Conversely, there’s a lot of shitty blogs. Those that are as thought through as much as books are great. But that makes the good blogs very similar to good books.
You could consume any media if you asked yourself while you’re consuming it: “How useful is this?” And if it’s not useful, you move on.
The pbm is we’re bad at this, and fast audiovisual media are amazing at grabbing attention and hiding their inanity.
So I lean towards books
I get less of the latest things, and much more of the important things
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1. A meeting should never finish in its allotted time.
What's the likelihood that you'll end precisely in 60m? 30m? Low.
If you're efficient, finish early and stop the meeting.
If you need more time, schedule it.
2. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Pain is what you feel. Suffering is what you do about it. Embrace it, accept it, and suffering disappear, even if pain doesn't—yet.
3. You already have the No
I used to not ask for things, for fear of inconveniencing or not getting what I wanted. Then somebody told me this sentence, which means "If you don't ask, you already have the No. Asking can only bring you positives."
Why is the US exceptional? We constantly talk about spirit and culture and institutions and...
But the main reason is much more mundane: Geography.
Consider this map. What's makes the US so lucky?
Mainly 2 things:
1. It's an impregnable fortress. Nobody can ever invade it.
Oceans & mountains on both sides.
Just 2 neighbors.
Mexico is smaller, too hilly, and has just 1 natural harbor so it can't be a threat (too poor).
Canada is too cold and exposed, not enough food for a big competitor.
2. It has the Mississippi Basin, the single best land area in the world. Why?
🏔️ Mountain ranges on both sides concentrate water inwards.
🌽 >1M square miles (2.5M km) of extremely well-irrigated land ➡️ lots of cheap food
“My body, my choice”, from pro-choice, is being co-opted by anti-vaxxers.
This is a good rule of thumb: society shouldn’t force itself on you in general, and especially less on your body.
So what’s the ≠?
Vaccines have a social dynamic. If not enough ppl in the community are vaccinated, herd immunity is not reached, and the entire community is at risk. So those unvaccinated are a risk to the community.
So here’s the deal: you should be free to get a vaccine or not. But anybody in society should be free to bar you from joining them without a vaccine, because you put them at risk.
Why did Apple ask their employees to get back to the office? Because they're an incumbent, like Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan. And because they lost their self-confidence 🧵 theverge.com/2021/6/2/22465…
Apple receives more candidates than it can process. They won't have a problem recruiting.
They print money. They don't need to reduce costs.
The risk of moving to remote is huge: they could jeopardize a superproductive business. They have too much to lose.
That's why other incumbents say exactly the same thing.
"There are things it simply cannot replicate."—Tim Cook, CEO Apple
“[Remote work is] an aberration that we are going to correct as soon as possible."—David Solomon, CEO Goldman Sachs
PRODUCTIVITY 1. Costs are lower
Salaries can be much cheaper, 30%-50% less easily.
Real estate is cheaper. Up to 10-20% reductions.
Then all the other reductions in costs: food, commuter benefits.
Also easier to do tax avoidance
2. Production is higher
According to most surveyed companies, remote workers have been more productive than pre-pandemic.
This effect is not heavily quantified, but the best study on this, for one company, was 22% more productive (2018)
Negotiating a job offer in California? A few tips (esp valid for tech): 🧵 1. You can ask for the range of your position’s compensation. The company is legally compelled to give you those ranges. Also true if you already work at a CA company.
2. CA companies can’t ask you for your previous job compensation. That’s to avoid being anchored by low wages in past jobs.
The best recruiters will simply ask you what’s your compensation expectation. That’s a good time to ask for ranges.