When Peterson was later asked which rule he found hardest to follow, he said it was this one. Don’t Lie A form of lying (to yourself) and to others is to espouse overly simplistic “truths” about the world. People who tell you that capitalism, the patriarchy, and the government are evil are engaged in self-delusion. … Read more
Hooked: How to Form Habit Building Products is a book that combines insights from psychology to inform us about how we become habituated to technologies – and how we can, in turn, design products that can get users habituated. Eyal makes an important distinction between habits and addictions – as they are often used interchangeably. … Read more
My Notes For Maps Of Meaning (2017) – Jordan Peterson Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation Jordan Peterson’s eighth Maps of Meaning (2017) lectures discusses the neuropsychology of symbolic representation (how our brain’s right and left hemispheres process the known and unknown differently), and the story of Mesopotamian myth of Marduk. Categories What are most real categories? … Read more
The Icarus Deception is a call to make great art. Seth Godin makes the case that in our new information economy, your best hope is to find a niche audience and form a connection. The End of the Industrial Age There was a point in time – almost a century ago – where the smartest … Read more
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi defines Flow as a psychologically optimal mental state. Flow is when you are neither too bored by the triviality of the task or overwhelmed by its difficulty. You lose sense of time, you are wholly focused, undistracted. In this state, you achieve growth and you live up to your potential. Athletes and … Read more
Get While the Getting’s Good Life is suffering. Enjoy it while you can. We may be licensed to reason in this way since there is no denying the initial proposition, but it isn’t only that life is suffering. Human beings for thousands of years exhibited patterns of behavior that were somewhat predictable, but we never … Read more
The New New thing is a brilliantly written story by Michael Lewis that describes the life of James Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, my CFO, and Healtheon. Clark was the antithesis to the corporation man. He despised suits, formalities, and investment bankers. He was a master salesman, and a Silicon Valley cowboy. He sued … Read more
My Notes For Maps Of Meaning (2017) – Jordan Peterson Maps of Meaning 7: Images of Story & MetaStory In Maps of Meaning 7: Images of Story & Metastory, Jordan Peterson starts by discussing the nature of our neurological systems, how information transforms us, some more universal archetypal themes and what we can learn from … Read more
A Religious Problem Peterson starts this chapter by stating that while the Columbine High School killers might not have been religious – they had a problem with reality, a problem that that had religious connotations. One of the members of the Columbine Duo writes about how he believed that the human race wasn’t worth fighting … Read more
The Undiscovered Self is a book that is written in a time of apocalyptic, dystopic visions, the iron curtain and the great division of the East and the West. Jung opens with a question. “What does the future bring?” What stops the world from disintegrating into chaos is a stable minority of individuals. The masses … Read more