Jennifer Wang

collecting good thoughts | An optimist ✨

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[Jennifer Wang @jennw006]

Little Italy Saturday

[NASA @NASA]

1972 ➡️2026
Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

[Jennifer Wang @jennw006]

Food lately April 02,2026

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

The older you get, the more you realize luck is just exposure.

If you sit in the same chair, same routine, talking to same people… nothing new happens.

You have to touch the world to win.

• Talk to strangers
• try a new coffee spot
• post on social
• Start a side hustle

The world rewards motion.

You don’t find opportunity sitting still.

You bump into it.

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

The real flex is living a soft life after surviving hard things.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

15 yo asked how I decide whether something is well written. I said good writing tells me important new things well.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

What is life?
• Dostoevsky: It’s hell.
• Socrates: It’s a test.
• Aristotle: It’s the mind.
• Nietzsche: It’s power.
• Freud: It’s death.
• Marx: It’s the idea.
• Picasso: It’s art.
• Gandhi: It’s love.
• Schopenhauer: It’s suffering.
• Bertrand Russell: It’s competition.
• Steve Jobs: It’s faith.
• Einstein: It’s knowledge.
• Stephen Hawking: It’s hope.
• Kafka: It’s just the beginning.

Each one must therefore give life a meaning according to how you one perceive.

[Ava @noampomsky]

“A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you. And even if you do know, you might not know how to find it.”

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

There's a viral video going around about an MIT neurosurgeon who quit to spend time alone in the mountains.

It's such a great perspective on our broken healthcare system (and getting healthy) that I thought I'd share the key excerpt here:

[George from 🕹prodmgmt.world @nurijanian]

Jeff Bezos on writing well

[kepano @kepano]

Choose optimism

Around the age of twenty-two I realized that my worldview had been deeply imbued with pessimism and cynicism. It was the culture I grew up in. A hostility to new ideas, to anything that strays from the norm. An assumption that if things can go wrong, they will go wrong — that malice is pervasive.

One day, I decided to become an optimist and life became much more fun.

The life of a pessimist is easy but dreary. The life of an optimist is hard but exciting. Pessimism is easy because it costs nothing. Optimism is hard because it must be constantly reaffirmed. In the face of a hostile, cynical world, it takes effort to show that positivity has merit.

To be an optimist, adopt these assumptions:

1. The future can be great
2. People’s intentions are mostly good
3. Ideas are fragile and need nurturing

Every new idea is an unrealized dream. Dreams are delicate and easy to destroy. When an idea presents itself, try to imagine the best version of it — what would make this idea great?

Pessimism and optimism share a trait: both are self-fulfilling. Your intention influences the outcome. Call it karma or, simply, effort. I would rather inhabit a future that has the possibility of being great.

Only optimists can create a great future. Only optimists can imagine it. Only optimists will put in the effort to make it. If you want to create a great future, believe it can happen. Choose optimism.

[kepano @kepano]

Now available in 23 languages
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[James Clear @JamesClear]

Life is harder when you expect a lot of the world and little of yourself.

Life is easier when you expect a lot of yourself and little of the world.

High standards, low expectations.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time."

— Charlie Munger

[kepano @kepano]

My 40 questions to ask yourself every year, now available in 15 languages:

Chinese, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish

thank you to everyone for contributing translations 🥰