Majicman Notes

Faith is the defeat of probability by the power of possibility. Jonathan Sacks https://rabbisacks.org Read more

Complexity is a silent killer of focus, clarity, and performance. This statement is true for businesses, but even more so for your work and life. It’s easy to let complexity and disorder slowly seep in—we… Read more

Don’t worry about death, pay attention, read a lot, give up control, embrace imperfection. Montaigne, like most educated minds of his day, was greatly inspired by the philosophy of the ancients, particularly Seneca, who insisted… Read more

Email is a tool for getting things done, and so the essential questions are not about salutations but about productivity. Emails are problematic not when they use the wrong sign-off but when they waste time… Read more

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the… Read more

Please understand there is no pessimism in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. Queen Victoria  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victoria-queen-of-United-Kingdom/Accession-to-the-throne Read more

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.  Orwell… Read more

In grad school, I specialized in adult psychopathology and forensics. One key learning from my time in forensics was about self-defense: if someone tries to kidnap you, your best chance is to resist right away.… Read more

Design is all about problem-solving and creative action. To improve your design skills, you have to develop competence in four key areas: thinking, learning, doing, and feeling. By maintaining curiosity and keeping an open mind,… Read more

Focus is not the sort of thing you aspire to … or you decide on Monday. It’s something you do every minute. What focus means is saying no to something that you, with every bone… Read more