Summary: This week, Wisereads features a preview of Jim O’Shaughnessy and Vatsal Kaushik’s new book, Two Thoughts, which offers insights from influential thinkers to inspire deeper thinking. The newsletter also highlights articles on relationships, blogging advice, and career resilience in the age of AI. Additionally, it includes a discussion on overcoming initial stress to achieve focus, emphasizing the importance of action in productivity.
Write a hundred pieces. Each time take one thing and make it better: a better title, better structure, better ending, better descriptions, better dialogue. Just one thing. It adds up (View Highlight)
The agitation and stress that you feel at the beginning of something—when you’re trying to lean into it and you can’t focus: you feel agitated and your mind’s jumping all over the place—that is just a gate. You have to pass through that gate to get to the focus component. (View Highlight)