Lord Cheddar Ton

[David Epstein @DavidEpstein]

Ideas come fast at first, but the best ones come later.

Researchers call the mistake the Creative Cliff Illusion: we think creativity is dropping off when it is actually warming up.

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

Those who figure this out are on their way to greatness

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

10 writers whose books I’ve read five or more of:

1- Balzac
2- Hanna Mina
3- Dostoyevsky
4- Anthony Trollope
5- Emile Zola
6- Roger Martin du Gard
6- Alberto Moravia
7- Frederic Dard
8- Graham Greene
9- Lawrence Durrell
10- Sommerset Maugham
etc.

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

love this

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

Yes and yes

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

Stripe's CEO never studied finance.

Instead, he reverse-engineered PayPal’s docs—and built a $95 BILLION company at 22.

How? A learning method so powerful, it's now taught in colleges.

Here's his genius framework for learning anything fast: 🧵

[Lord Cheddar Ton @MuseumCheese]

@AnnaLeptikon @nntaleb Curious.Besides things that a class can offer,like answers to specific and personally relevant questions.What did you get out of the institute that couldn’t be learned from the Incerto books or online interviews?

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

Prescription for popular success: do something strange. Make a habit of your weird.

For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living https://t.co/CR2aTORVgZ #excellentadvice

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The value of being wrong – Lewis Thomas (one of my all-time favorite writers) on the generative power of mistakes, in evolution and in life https://t.co/H7l6NFMmfM

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

“Think not of the books you’ve bought as a ‘to be read’ pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood.”

–Luc van Donkersgoed

[Lord Cheddar Ton @MuseumCheese]

@savadixrp @SunoMusic Same here,@SunoMusic costumer support is bullshit.Reached out multiple times.Never heard back.
They’re gonna sink their brand before long if this is how they treat their paying costumers.

[Adam Robinson @IAmAdamRobinson]

Self-help "experts" dispense endless homilies on all the qualities necessary for success:

Grit.
Focus.
Courage.
Patience.
Tenacity.
Discipline.
Organization.
Determination.

NONSENSE!

If you want something BADLY enough, you'll acquire all these qualities along the way.

If you want it BAD,

you'll do WHATEVER you NEED to do to reach your goal. . .

so LONG as you bring two other qualities—
adaptability, and self-awareness.

Desire alone would soon have you banging your head against a wall of obstacles,

so when you encounter obstacles, or aren't getting the results you want,

you'll need to adapt, and change what you're doing.

Now, your desire should be enough COMPEL you to adapt,

but without self-awareness, you won't know WHAT to change, or how.

You can outsource some of that self-awareness to others—like coaches—but even then you'll need to adapt your approach to your coach's recommendations.

But that's all you need to succeed.

DESIRE + ADAPTABILITY + SELF-AWARENESS =

SUCCESS.

[Romanian Cultural Institute USA @RomaniaNY]

#WeRecommend 🎨 Don’t miss #ThatMagicLight by Romanian artist #RaduOreian at @1969gallery, NYC (May 6–June 21)! A powerful visual journey through history, myth & memory.
📰 Featured in @JuxtapozMag → https://t.co/RmpyIelD4m
📍39 White St, Tribeca
#RaduOreian #RomanianArtist

[Lord Cheddar Ton @MuseumCheese]

@SunoMusic Sent multiple messages to customer service,It’s been weeks and still no reply!!! Is this how you want your business reputation to grow ???

[Lord Cheddar Ton @MuseumCheese]

@SunoMusic Sent multiple messages to customer service,It’s been weeks and STILL NO REPLY!!! …IS THIS HOW YOU WANT YOU BUSINESS REPUTATION TO GROW???

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

Every time I talk with @FoundersPodcast (and listening to the podcast of course), I hear new powerful maxims.

I’ve been collecting what he learned from decades of studying founders.

1. Money comes naturally as a result of service.
2. Ordinary things, done with extraordinary focus, over an extraordinary period of time.
3. Find an earned secret and exploit it for two or three decades.
4. Be a professional opportunist.
5. Opportunity arrives after a loss.
6. The best financial decisions are not financial decisions.
7. You don't need to be a genius; you just need to collect more information.
8. Reading is not hard—pick up a book and stare at it. If you're not doing that, you're not serious.
9. Wise people don't solve problems; they avoid them.
10. Genius has the fewest moving parts.
11. Those at the margins often come to control the center.
12. Mute the world, build your own.
13. Don't do anything that someone else can do.
14. A natural monopoly is ideal, but if not, take an oligopoly.
15. Invest heavily in the technologies of the day.
16. Ideas that are easy to understand are easy to spread.
17. Make yourself easy to interface with.
18. Relationships run the world.
19. History doesn’t repeat; human nature does.
20. Quality of your life is the direct result of the quality of your decisions.
21. Don't learn to deal with stress; learn to enjoy it.
22. Belief comes before ability.
23. Problems are opportunities in work clothes.
24. Books are made out of books.
25. Bad boys move in silence.
26. Learning from history is a form of leverage.
27. Designing in constraints is powerful.
28. The world is your classroom.
29. "Always more audacity." — Winston Churchill
30. Excellence is the capacity to take pain.
31. Actions express priorities.
32. The public praises people for what they practice in private.
33. There are ideas worth billions in a $30 history book.
34. Successful people listen. Those that don’t, don’t last long.
35. If you know your business from A to Z, no problem is unsolvable.
36. Business is problems; the best companies are problem-solving machines.
37. Gentlemen, watch your costs.
38. You aren't advertising to a standing army; you're advertising to a moving parade.
39. Self-pity has no utility.
40. Always more audacious.
41. Wisdom is prevention.
42. Go for great (Munger).
43. Go for freedom (Zell).
44. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active.
45. Time carries most of the weight.
46. Incentives rule everything around you.
47. Find a simple idea and take it seriously.
48. Good ideas are rare; when you find one, bet heavily.
49. Genius lies in ignoring the unimportant.
50. Intensity is the price of excellence.
51. You can’t save souls in an empty church.
52. Scale and fanaticism combined are powerful.
53. If you’re not working on your best idea, you're doing it wrong.
54. Ease isn’t the goal; excellence is.
55. Become friends with the eminent dead.
56. People are power law; the best ones change everything.
57. By endurance, we conquer.
58. Keep things simple and remember what you set out to do.
59. The founder is the guardian of the company’s soul.
60. In business, the winning system maximizes or minimizes one or a few variables.
61. Imitation precedes creation.
62. Focus is saying no.
63. Optimism is a moral duty.
64. Intense concentration can bring out hidden resources in people.
65. If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
66. Obsess over customers.
67. Being extreme in your craft is essential in the age of leverage.
68. Learning is not memorizing; it’s changing behavior.
69. Repeat, repeat, repeat; volume and consistency win.
70. If you love what you do, the only exit strategy is death.
71. The story of the father is embedded in the son.
72. The hard way is the right way.
73. Be intolerant of slowness.
74. Hire a professional critic.
75. Experts don’t know sh*t.
76. I love the climb; I don’t care where the summit is.
77. "If you do everything, you will win."
78. "Reading is forced meditation."
79. "Action solves everything."
80. A great product has to be better than it has to be.
81. It’s not what you do; it’s how you do it.
82. "I'm not a businessman; I'm a business, man."
83. "Forever on the attack."
84. Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself.
85. Plan B should be to make Plan A work.
86. The road to success is paved with mistakes well handled.
87. The good ones know more.
88. Avoid boring people.
89. The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.
90. All good things in life come from compounding.
91. A players hire A players; B players hire C players.
92. "Search all the parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees."
93. Have pride in creation, not consumption.
94. Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
95. Once you find something that works, shut up about it.
96. If you know the basics, you have an advantage over others (Kobe).
97. Apply specific knowledge with leverage, and you’ll get what you deserve (Naval).
98. There’s no substitute for hard work.
99. Collect a handful of ideas, then hammer them home repeatedly.
100. It’s slothful not to compress your thoughts.
101. A novice is easily spotted because they do too much.
102. "Repetition is persuasive."
103. Keep the main thing the main thing.

I've done several podcast episodes with David, usually with our buddy @baldridgecpa, and we have another one coming soon!

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

After reading on habits of the greatest creators of the last 150 years it’s clear: getting up early, working for 3 solid hours before lunch, walks, cold baths (!) & amphetamines (do not recommend!) fueled much of the most important art, music & literature. Alcohol far less so.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Some people will call this masochistic but honestly that’s a weak excuse. Unless you love doing something it’s going to be hard to focus. But there’s so much power in learning to do it anyway. This skill builds fast. Unfortunately, it also degrades fast. In the world of immense distraction, we live in it takes more and more effort to recover this skill. The payoff gets bigger and bigger, however. Most people are drifting into the noise. Don’t be one of them.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

@norvid_studies @tacitronium I played a ton of geoguessr with o3. After every round I'd tell it the true answer and ask what it missed. Then we'd adjust its protocol if there was a generalizable thing that'd have helped.