Ugotistical🥀

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[indie @INDIEWASHERE]

How it feels to read one page of a book written before 1940s because mf loved cumulative sentences

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.’”
—Aldous Huxley

[Dr Raj @DrRajChohan]

‘Overrated’ is one of those words that so many people struggle to understand. It’s so funny. Overrated does not mean bad. It means the mass opinion of someone’s ability, skill or competence exceeds the reality. Often that’s because people place too much emphasis on certain qualities, undervalue others, or fail to recognise something deeper. Someone can be decent in what they do and still be overrated.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

You can democratise the product, but you cannot democratise exclusivity.

[S. 🏆 @saratu]

Failure is often redirection, but something we don't talk about a lot is how constant redirection causes one to doubt one's own compass, and can lead one to be self-protective in a way that limits the grandiosity of one's ambitions.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Etihad threatening to sue. UAE reportedly intimating that UK investment could be pulled. A Prime Minister couching any criticisism. If this sorry saga doesn't convince you that state ownership of football clubs should never be allowed, nothing ever will.

[Bookish Ezioma @EziomaKalu]

You are a real reader even if you haven’t read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. No book gives you an access pass or qualifies you to be a real reader.

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

Too many people want the freedom to opt out of the social contract - which is what rudeness means, at its core - yet want everyone else to follow it because they don’t like the result when people treat them in kind.

[Jamie Hamilton @stirling_j]

The biggest problem in tactical analysis is distinguishing between coach and player led intentions in possession.

[Chukwuedozie Nwa Charlie @TheCharlesIsidi]

none of us are easy to love.

[sixfootcandy @sixfootcandy]

I love how as an adult, the consequence of doing too much is pain and exhaustion, but the consequence of doing nothing is also pain and exhaustion.

[Ugotistical🥀 @Ugotistical]

If you have a cat and your house is smelling, it's more telling on you than the cat.

[Pearl @pearl0199]

no let any peer pressure push you go buy cat oooo

your room go dey gba ehn

[TM. @TMtalksball]

#AFC | The sad thing is we told you Tzolis is not the 1v1 guy you think he is. To temper your expectations. You ignored.

It’s not his fault. He’s a £35M pound winger who can provide moments when the conditions suit him. He has nice skill sets.

He is not starting lvl for Arsenal.

[𝓫𝓲𝓰𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓵 @carlterver]

"To read Teju Cole is to participate in a wandering of sorts—one that is both meandering and keen. It is to subject oneself to absorption into a stretch of wondering that often outlives the duration it takes to finish a book. Like Cole’s prior fiction, Tremor is a dissident novel that is as Sebaldian (wandering, self-referential) as it is, and if I could be so bold, Colean or “Colesque” (affective narration driven by an unharried social inquiry)."
https://t.co/g795WBaxGV

[Z @aprilsarebad]

there is a certain loneliness that comes with not wanting what everyone else wants out of life..

[Nihal | نهال @nihalist___]

the thing about reading substack is… I really do understand why editors were invented

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A lot of founders I talk to are worried about what will happen with AI. So am I frankly. But they're actually better off than anyone else. If the world is going to get turned upside down, the safest place to be is in a small, fast-moving company that can easily change direction.

[Ugotistical🥀 @Ugotistical]

@nimibillions 😭🤣

[Uma @uwouma]

Operations managers in the house, when you join that team as the new manager, make sure to have a one-on-one call with everyone on the team.

Nothing long say 5–15 minutes to understand your new team members on a personal level.

When I did this, I noticed people were more… 1/3

[Ugotistical🥀 @Ugotistical]

@elnathan_john 🤣🤣😂