7 Random But Interesting Ideas I Found Last Week

Recently, I’ve started to list interesting ideas I found over the week—to practice my 10-idea list habit. Here are 7 from the last week. #1. The Matthew effect. Inspired by a verse from the gospel of Matthew, recognition goes to already-recognized people. Visit social media and you’ll see it. #2. The one sentencing to death wields the sword. Or something like that. This comes from Game of Thrones. Decision makers should stay close to their decisions. #3. Don’t treat reading as background noise. Know whether you’re reading for pleasure and insight. When reading for insight, make it active. Otherwise, you won’t remember anything. #4. Solve the problem with what’s in your room. Or in your head or in your notes. #5. Three interesting questions from Tim Ferriss’s Tools of Titans: What if you only solve a problem by removing something? What if you only had two hours to create[Why I’m Writing Some of My Posts By Hand (Plus An Update On My Book Experiment)](/2026/02/07/Handwriting/)? What’s…