AMA with @vgr starts now!

Venkatesh Rao has been writing ribbonfarm.com since 2007. He's also the author of Tempo, a book on timing & decision-making.

Vgr consults executives to help stress-test their thinking and build systems for their organizations.

Most recently, he ran summerofprotocols.com

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I'm not a very motivated person. I just do shit. I do find inspiration in the old demotivational posters available from despair.com though.

most unmotivated people have trouble doing shit. How is it different for you?

This is just not true. "Motivation" is pop-psych growth mindset bs.

In fact it can be counterproductive. There's a book about it that talks about "overmotivated underachievers"

will add this to my queue but in the meantime is there a tweet, thread or blog length summary you'd recommend?

This is just not true. "Motivation" is pop-psych growth mindset bs.

In fact it can be counterproductive. There's a book about it that talks about "overmotivated underachievers" 

https://www.amazon.com/Overachievement-Science-Working-Less-Accomplish/dp/1682302237