kupajo
Strange how certain arrangements of words sear themselves into your mind. Then they wait. A day or decade later, like a song you catch yourself humming, you realize the words have shaped you.
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- Be there
- Working Wisdom: Field Notes for Early Life Book
- The work is meticulous but rewarding
- Optimism about the end of some work
- Obituary for a Small Business: The Creative Teacher
- David Foster Walleye
- 2 weeks of attention in 24 hours – Notes from the top of Hacker News
- $12,000 gone – Getting started with digital advertising
- Writing and the end of a good thing
- Shelf life – 25 books I keep coming back to
- Write for your career
- Do the right things when no one is looking
- Even the rocks are moving (evolution)
- Fire and advance (speed)
- Multiply your options
- Open road, open mind (running)
- Shrink jobs, not standards
- Sleep, diet, and exercise (your body’s flywheel)
- Small moves lead to massive shifts (compounding)
- Start with the end in mind
- Decide what’s human
- Fiction is a reality accelerator
- Imagine Sisyphus happy
- In the midst of a Great Big Thing
- Know what you really truly like
- Pay in and be grateful to do so (grit)
- Remember the cosmic joke
- Swim in the fluid memory
- Bankrupt your soul by being a people pleaser
- Forget who forgets you
- Honor your giants
- If you’re a parent…
- Listen more than you speak
- Sad astronauts (vulnerability)
- See the hands that shaped the clay of hardened beings empathy
- Station your canaries (leading indicators and system interrupts)
- The people you love most…
- Align your actions and identity
- Avoid what feeds you without nourishing you
- Books restore focus
- Eliminate noise in your mental bandwidth
- Fear and loneliness cause people to act in self-contradictory ways
- Iron never lies
- Recite the Serenity Prayer often
- Reduce your decision fatigue
- Seek unwelcome truths to widen your base of understanding
- Speak to yourself in full sentences
- Strive for your actions to have a single tenor
- Walk the shoreline of your ignorance
- Your presence is inversely related to your hunger for distraction
- About these field notes
- It’s good to quiver under the bar
- Move toward what makes you flinch
- Painfully correct cliches
- Write to escape your default setting
- Find the color (enthusiasm)
- Harness your venom (projection)
- Leave the bucket
- Stamina is a silent advantage
- Start at zero
- The tailwind (gratitude)
- Your life follows your attention
- Barns and stars
- When to leave
- Write to pool your shifting selves
- No opinion needed
- Never be a victim
- Beware of black butterflies
- Rules clobber goals
- Batch like tasks and binge on a schedule
- Be impatient with short tasks
- Be irrationally patient (delayed gratification)
- Computers are big-ass levers
- Write badly