📫 Energy & Discomfort – Weekend Words #061

Powerful reminders for a smarter weekend

November 22, 2025

Happy Saturday. Your weekend words are: energy and discomfort.

“Give First is being willing, not required, willing to put energy into a system without knowing what you’re going to get back. It’s not altruism. You expect to get something back. You just don’t know when, from whom, over what time period, and what consideration.”

—Brad Feld, discussing Give First in a Techstars Fireside Chat

“Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.”

—Robert Wright, Why Buddhism Is True

More from the author in our word of the week: Vipassana

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