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fixxate_daily.json

{
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "How to Do Great Work",
      "author": "Paul Graham",
      "url": "https://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html",
      "summary": "A deep exploration of the prerequisites for doing great work: curiosity, hard work, and the courage to pursue unpopular ideas.",
      "tags": ["Career", "Excellence", "Philosophy"]
    },
    {
      "title": "The Top Idea in Your Mind",
      "author": "Paul Graham",
      "url": "https://www.paulgraham.com/top.html",
      "summary": "Argues that your brain works on whatever your top priority is during your 'idle' time, so you must choose your problems carefully.",
      "tags": ["Productivity", "Mindset", "Focus"]
    },
    {
      "title": "How To Be Successful",
      "author": "Sam Altman",
      "url": "https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful",
      "summary": "Thirteen observations on how to achieve outlier success, covering compound growth, self-belief, and the importance of being hard to compete with.",
      "tags": ["Success", "Business", "Scale"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Value is created by doing",
      "author": "Sam Altman",
      "url": "https://blog.samaltman.com/value-is-created-by-doing",
      "summary": "A short, punchy reminder that the most significant value comes from action rather than planning or talking about ideas.",
      "tags": ["Action", "Entrepreneurship", "Value"]
    },
    {
      "title": "1000 True Fans",
      "author": "Kevin Kelly",
      "url": "https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/",
      "summary": "The foundational theory that creators don't need millions of followers to thrive; they only need 1,000 people who will buy anything they produce.",
      "tags": ["Creativity", "Business", "Community"]
    },
    {
      "title": "68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice",
      "author": "Kevin Kelly",
      "url": "https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/",
      "summary": "A collection of practical, wise, and often surprising life lessons spanning career, relationships, and personal growth.",
      "tags": ["Life Advice", "Wisdom", "Mindset"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Advice That Actually Worked For Me",
      "author": "Nabeel S. Qureshi",
      "url": "https://nabeelqureshi.com/advice-that-actually-worked-for-me",
      "summary": "A high-signal collection of advice on building momentum, choosing projects, and the mental models that facilitate rapid growth.",
      "tags": ["Growth", "Career", "Learning"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Principles",
      "author": "Nabeel S. Qureshi",
      "url": "https://nabeelqureshi.com/principles",
      "summary": "A personal manifesto on the core beliefs that drive decision-making and problem-solving in complex environments.",
      "tags": ["Philosophy", "Decision Making", "Systems"]
    },
    {
      "title": "High Agency",
      "author": "George Mack",
      "url": "https://www.highagency.com/",
      "summary": "Explains why 'High Agency'—the refusal to accept that a problem is unsolvable—is the most important trait for navigating the modern world.",
      "tags": ["Agency", "Mindset", "Psychology"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Publishing your work increases your luck",
      "author": "Aaron Francis",
      "url": "https://aaronfrancis.com/2022/publishing-your-work-increases-your-luck",
      "summary": "Explains the 'Luck Surface Area' theory: how putting your ideas into the world creates opportunities that wouldn't otherwise exist.",
      "tags": ["Creativity", "Career", "Luck"]
    },
    {
      "title": "What if you tried hard?",
      "author": "Aaron Francis",
      "url": "https://aaronfrancis.com/2024/what-if-you-tried-hard",
      "summary": "A motivating look at the untapped potential of simply applying maximum effort and consistency to a single goal.",
      "tags": ["Ambition", "Action", "Work Ethic"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Staring into the abyss as a core life skill",
      "author": "Ben Kuhn",
      "url": "https://www.benkuhn.net/abyss/",
      "summary": "Discusses the importance of confronting uncomfortable truths about your work or life rather than avoiding them through 'slop' or distractions.",
      "tags": ["Self-Awareness", "Problem Solving", "Honesty"]
    },
    {
      "title": "95%-ile isn't that good",
      "author": "Dan Luu",
      "url": "https://danluu.com/95-percent-ile/",
      "summary": "A technical and philosophical look at why 'above average' performance is often insufficient in fields with power-law outcomes.",
      "tags": ["Performance", "Excellence", "Analysis"]
    },
    {
      "title": "How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably",
      "author": "Steph Smith",
      "url": "https://stephsmith.io/be-good-repeatably/",
      "summary": "Argues that greatness is not about a single flash of genius, but the result of maintaining high standards over a long period.",
      "tags": ["Consistency", "Excellence", "Habits"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Be more productive",
      "author": "Aaron Swartz",
      "url": "http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity",
      "summary": "The late visionary's guide to managing time and energy, focusing on psychological hurdles and the 'flow state'.",
      "tags": ["Productivity", "Time Management", "Psychology"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Some things I believe",
      "author": "Nat Friedman",
      "url": "https://natfriedman.com/belief",
      "summary": "A concise list of contrarian and high-leverage beliefs about technology, human potential, and progress.",
      "tags": ["Tech", "Optimism", "Philosophy"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Create",
      "author": "Derek Sivers",
      "url": "https://sive.rs/create",
      "summary": "A reminder that the world belongs to the creators, not the consumers, and why the act of building is the ultimate form of self-expression.",
      "tags": ["Creativity", "Mindset", "Art"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Notes on Taste",
      "author": "Brie Wolfson",
      "url": "https://www.briewolfson.com/waxings/notes-on-taste",
      "summary": "Explores the intangible nature of 'taste' and why it is a critical differentiator in both product development and personal life.",
      "tags": ["Taste", "Design", "Standards"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Becoming the person who does the thing",
      "author": "Fred Rivett",
      "url": "https://fredrivett.com/becoming-the-person-who-does-the-thing/",
      "summary": "Focuses on identity-based productivity—moving from wanting to be a creator to actually performing the daily tasks of one.",
      "tags": ["Identity", "Action", "Habits"]
    },
    {
      "title": "You and Your Research",
      "author": "Richard Hamming",
      "url": "https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html",
      "summary": "A transcription of the classic talk on why some scientists do significant work and others don't, emphasizing courage and question-choice.",
      "tags": ["Research", "Science", "Impact"]
    }
  ]
}