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Social media just doesn’t hit like a website does
Seven years ago, the Pigeons & Planes team shut down its music publication website, thinking it might be better to connect with people on social media platforms. Last month, it started up its website again. Here’s how founder Jacob Moore explains it: All that said, we’re not sure what a music website’s role is in…
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This, too, can be meditation
The more menial a task is, the easier it is to make it a form of meditation. Activities like walking to an errand, washing dishes, and cooking come to mind. Whenever I feel myself twisting up into a frazzle, “This, too, can be meditation,” comes to mind. The statement helps me loosen up. It creates…
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You can opt out of incentives
People and businesses offer all sorts of incentives to encourage you to behave the way they want you to. For example, an airline may offer discounts on multi destination trips instead of return trips. Or a credit card may offer points that you can travel with, in exchange for your continued use. These incentives can…
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Practicing in public
There’s a piano inside a bookstore. It’s available for anyone to play, including you. If you do that, you won’t need to buy a piano, but the trade is that everyone hears you play, practice, or perform. They might like it, they might not. They may be waiting their turn. You’ll need to develop a…
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Five lessons for whispering into the Hacker News front page
A couple of years ago, I met a CEO of a series A startup. At the time, I was working as a content strategist on Figma’s marketing team, where I also found an informal role as the in-house Hacker News expert. At the time, Figma was expanding outside of its core design audience, and into new…
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Trust yourself
It’s simple, pithy, and cliche. It’s also something worth reminding yourself of more often than you think. There are two films that convey this message really well, spoiler alerts for both: In Rental Family, the protagonist is an actor whose job is pretending to be people’s family members. For example, a mom hires him to…