The most invisible form of wasted time is doing a good job on an unimportant task.

If it’s going to be different, the forces involved need to be different as well.

Success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets

Poet Marianne Moore offers a simple life strategy: "I've made it a principle not to be over-influenced by minor disappointments."

Is chasing virality going out of fashion?

Live the Pareto Principle lifestyle:

• Relationships. Who are the few people that have the most positive impact on my life? Spend more time with them.

• Priorities. What are the few actions that have the most positive impact on my day? Prioritize them.

• Learning. What are the few information sources I learn the most from? Focus on them.

• Stress. What are

“Knowledge itself is power,” Francis Vacon wrote in the sixteenth century, but in the Internet era, sorting knowledge might be even more powerful. Information is now easy to find in abundance; making sense of it, knowing which information is useful, is much harder.

— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka

The world is getting larger because I can now look everywhere when I want

to find something (or someone). That means that the amount of variety is

staggering, and it means I can define my world to be exactly what I have an

interest in—and find my preferences anywhere on the planet.

At the same time, the world is getting smaller because the categories a