Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 5th/6th April 2025
Growing Up Murdoch by McKay Coppins
“Airing the dirty laundry didn’t come naturally to James. In our conversations, he vacillated between seething anger toward his father and an odd kind of protectiveness. Trim and neatly dressed, he spoke in an even, British-inflected staccato that seemed to belie a subcutaneous anxiety. Sometimes, when I would ask him about a particularly painful episode with his father, he would find that the dishes suddenly needed clearing...”
The Seth Godin interview: What I learned about the long view from sci-fi legends by Eric Markowitz
“Seth Godin: I think it’s both. I talk about the Circle of Now and the Circle of Us. The Circle of Now is what a toddler lives in — it’s no more than 180 seconds. One of the lessons from the marshmallow test is that if we can expand our Circle of Now — if we can imagine waiting 15 minutes for an extra cookie — we start to build a muscle. Most wild animals — except beavers, who build dams — live entirely in the moment. They care about what’s happening right now…”
LinkedIn is a depressing place by Adam Singer
“The hard thing, the actually useful thing, is trust. And trust is the antithesis of virality. Trust is the slow, unsexy accretion of reputation. It’s built in quiet spaces from people you develop a relationship with, demonstrate competence to over time, connect with carefully and provide a reason to believe in you. To have trust means individuals who will put their own name on the line to help you. Developing these takes years, not days. It requires the consistent, difficult work of showing up. Similar to going to the gym…”
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Qs?
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