Merlin Mann has been collecting nuggets of wisdom, and you can read those nuggets here. I’ll spare you any puffy prose and provide a short bulleted list of some of my favorites instead:
- People think about you much less than you either hope or fear.
- Buy the nicest screwdrivers you can afford.
- If you have cool stickers, use them. Put them on things. Be joyful about using your stickers. If you die with a collection of dozens of cool stickers you never used, you did it wrong.
- Whenever you meet someone new, ask them what they're most excited about right now. Everyone interesting is excited about something right now, and they'd probably love to tell you about it.
- Treat everyone you encounter like they're having a way worse day than you.
Read these (and so, so many more) in Merlin’s Gist (but leave your glassware and flammables at the door).