Ben Kemp

Husband, father, business professional. ‘Note to self: I’m here to be inspired by and learn from admirable people with a variety of perspectives.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

I've been suspicious of the philosophers hired by Anthropic who specialize in AI ethics for similar reasons that I'm skeptical of those who went into "bioethics": they form a closed subculture that delights in clever arguments without regard to the human suffering that can result. | ‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It https://t.co/TpXAVyAaW8

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

You only discover your real values by the choices you make when no one is looking.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

A new day begins. Do some exercise! 💪🏾

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

You don’t find your identity. You peel away the bullshit until what you’re left with is yourself.

[Zig Ziglar @TheZigZiglar]

The conversations you have with yourself matter.

Repeat your limitations often enough and they begin to feel like facts. Remind yourself of your ability to learn, grow, and improve, and you begin approaching challenges differently.

Guard your inner dialogue. Your words can become the boundaries or the possibilities you live within.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

If you want to avoid criticism, create less.

If you want to avoid irrelevance, create more.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Remember: People will tell you that you can’t do something simply because they believe they can’t do it. Your success reminds them of their failures.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The older I get, the more I realize that growth is not about fixing all of your problems, rather it’s learning which problems aren’t worth fixing.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The quality of your life is directly proportional to your tolerance for uncertainty.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Getting good at dealing with feeling bad is what allows you to eventually feel good again.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A Monday morning question for you:

Many of the good things in life are downstream from being helpful and useful to others. What can you do today to be useful to someone else?

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Powerful rule for life: Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary feeling. Bad days pass. Anger fades. Fear settles. Just learn to pause. Take a walk. Sleep on it. Give it a minute. You can always act tomorrow. You can't always undo a rushed decision made today.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Love is not the cause of commitment, but the effect. You don’t wait until you have the perfect relationship to commit to a person—you commit to the person in order to create the perfect relationship. Soulmates are built, not found.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A good life is one in which things do not go perfectly, but you find a way to have a good day regardless.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Why John Coltrane still matters — Harvard Gazette https://t.co/SYZfbqPNgX

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

What you can never change:
1. The past
2. The world
3. Other people.

What you can always change:
1. Your attitude
2. Your assumptions
3. Your beliefs.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

@Polymarket The 'JUST IN' part made me chuckle.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Communism sucks. It's not good 'in theory' nor in reality.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Life is essentially 'hard'.

If you're fortunate, you get to pick which version of hard.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

"I like to quote the founder and proprietor of Our World in Data, who said that the papers could have had the headline: “187,000 people escaped from extreme poverty yesterday, every day for the last 30 years.” But you never saw that headline, and as a result, a billion people escaped from extreme poverty. One of the most significant events in human history, and no one knows about it."