Staircase Wit

Things I learned from Ryan Holiday's Ego is the Enemy: 1. Do your work. Do it well. You may or may not be rewarded for it, but that's not important. Recognition and rewards are a bonus. The effort is enough. 2. Never stop being a student. Never forget that there is much you don't know yet. Seek criticism and feedback. 3. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. Being the absolute best you're capable of should be the metric to measure yourself against. 4. Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results. (Part I Chapter 5).

Two thoughts on FYRE: The Greatest Party that Never Happened 1. We all have a friend like Billy McFarland: charming, ambitious, and always cooking up some grand get-rich-quick scheme, but once you see through them, you will realize that they are actually just lazy and incompetent. Let this Netflix documentary remind us that wild, revolutionary, epic, and obscure ideas will not make you a success. Discipline, conscientiousness, attention to detail, hard work, integrity, and pa tience will. 2. FYRE: The Greatest Party that Never Happened also shows us how vain and shallow society has become. The organizers of Fyre Festival made people believe that they can party with the cool kids, the influencers, and beautiful models like Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner, thanks to an unrealistically gorgeous video of a beach party and a few vague social media posts. The attendees relied on the endorsement of a few models, thinking about how attending Fyre Festival would make their Ins