Summary: This week, Wisereads features “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day,” a guide on making the most of your time. It also highlights articles discussing the culture of Silicon Valley and the psychology behind shopping at Costco. Additionally, there’s a focus on the importance of first impressions and timeless wisdom on managing time effectively.
Intelligence is only one of the two altars worshiped in Silicon Valley. The other is action. The founders of the Valley invariably think of themselves as men of action: they code, they build, disrupt, they invent, they conquer. This is a culture where insight, intelligence, and knowledge are treasured—but treasured as tools of action, not goods in and of themselves. (View Highlight)
If someone asks you ‘what do you do?’ resist the temptation to respond with your job title. Instead, respond with an ‘I believe’ statement… Open with an idea, and the conversation is already interesting before it begins. We crave interestingness over almost all else. (View Highlight)
There’s actually two different types of time perception. There is in-the-moment time perception and then there is remembered time perception… If you’re doing something very stimulating and there is a lot of change, and a lot of novelty, that absolutely flies by in the moment. There’s a lot going on, it’s very exciting, but then when you remember it, it feels very long because you have all these novel memories (View Highlight)
Almost anything money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat, (View Highlight)
It has been said that time is money. That proverb understates the case. Time is a great deal more than money. If you have time you can obtain money—usually. But though you have the wealth of a cloak-room attendant at the Carlton Hotel, you cannot buy yourself a minute more time than I have, or the cat by the fire has. (View Highlight)