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Long Read: 20 Modern Heresies

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Louis Pereira
Feb 26, 2023
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Training yourself to think unthinkable thoughts has advantages beyond the thoughts themselves. It's like stretching. When you stretch before running, you put your body into positions much more extreme than any it will assume during the run. If you can think things so outside the box that they'd make people's hair stand on end, you'll have no trouble with the small trips outside the box that people call innovative.”

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Trying to plan your career is an exercise in futility that will only serve to frustrate you, and to blind you to the really significant opportunities that life will throw your way.

- Marc Andreessen, Marc Andreessen's Guide to Career Planning

Your memory resets when you walk through a door, even when that door is on a screen.

- Tom Whitwell, 52 things I learned in 2021

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