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The Smart Web does exist (but it needs your support)
The dumb web is created by people who are convinced that people on the internet are idiots.
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Jakob Greenfeld
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May 2024

Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless
I no longer feel any pull towards Twitter. I can't really recall the last time anything good came out of it for me personally. Neither ideas nor…
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Jakob Greenfeld
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The Truth About Courage
What makes internal barriers so tricky is that they find most of their support in the world around you. Sure, one reason why you feel the Resistance is…
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Jakob Greenfeld
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Truth is Overrated
We all want simple answers. Simple answers expressed with enough confidence are irresistible. I read dozens of books on the how to be more successsful…
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Jakob Greenfeld
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Elon Musk's, Steve Jobs', Albert Einstein's Secret Sauce
A young man decided to travel the world in search of a place where he could find happiness and maybe the love of his life. One day he arrived in a small…
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Jakob Greenfeld
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April 2024

Upstream Productivity - or the day you stopped caring about productivity advice
I write to get ideas out of my system.
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Jakob Greenfeld
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Follow Curiosity
Paul Graham wrote a 12,000-word mega essay on how to do great work but the essence of it is a small paragraph near the end: Curiosity is the best guide…
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Jakob Greenfeld
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Progress is not automatic
I’ve recently talked to a several people I haven’t talked to in a while. The one thing that stood out for me was that basically everyone is still…
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Jakob Greenfeld
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Thinking harder doesn’t work (or how I learned to love the right half of my brain)
I’ve always been an extremely left-brainy guy. Few things give me as much joy as making sense of the world using language. Frameworks, models, labels…
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Jakob Greenfeld
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Expansion, always, in all ways
I once read that for addicts reality distorts so that only once choice is left. In some weaker form this seems to me like a standard feature of the…
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Jakob Greenfeld
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Letting Now Jakob make decisions for Future Jakob
I’ve always been torn between my desire to allow spontaneity and my repeated observation that intentionality is essential. I’ve tried many times to give…
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Jakob Greenfeld

March 2024

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