Timeless Ideas | May 16, 2021
Here’s your weekly dose of timeless ideas to sharpen your mind, make smarter decisions, and live better.
Quotes
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
― Seneca
II.
Accept success without arrogance, handle failure with indifference.
― Marcus Aurelius
III.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful . . . that’s what matters to me.
― Steve Jobs
Ideas
I.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph’s Biography
II.
The amount of money you earn is the measure of the value that others place on your contribution. To increase the value of the money you are getting out, you must increase the value of the work that you are putting in. To earn more money, you must add more value.
Michael Ellsberg in The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful
III.
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.
Don Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements
Articles Worth Reading
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Inside Netflix’s Quest to End Scrolling
Josef Adalian | Vulture
We face countless decisions in our daily routine and, at the end of the day, the on-demand ecosystem puts on extra pressure. Finding something to watch is not a lean-back experience anymore; it’s a challenge. The world of never-ending content rows brings too many alternatives for our brains to handle, and that is when decision fatigue kicks in. We start to feel overwhelmed. Some people, they like that choice and they want their choice. But some people get analysis paralysis. Netflix wants to help you to decide what to watch.
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A dodgy deal helped make him a billionaire. It worked, until now.
Peter Whoriskey, Yeganeh Torbati and Keith L. Alexander | Washington Post
Over the past five years, Robert F. Smith became one of the nation’s most prominent billionaire philanthropists. But Smith had a secret: He’d played a role in what federal prosecutors allege was the biggest tax evasion scheme in U.S. history, an effort by his longtime associate, Texas billionaire Robert Brockman, to hide $2 billion from tax authorities in an offshore scheme featuring a computer program called Evidence Eliminator and code names such as “Redfish” and “Snapper.”
III.
Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here’s the Woman Driving the Change.
Nancy Scola | Politico
You've probably never heard of Vijaya Gadde. That's because she flies under the radar in a world that worships tech CEOs. Gadde is Twitter's top lawyer, who has helped drive the company to more heavily regulate what users can say and post. Here's how some of the changes Gadde helped drive within Twitter have rippled through Silicon Valley.
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