Mike "Bagel"
- Communication creates community. The way we communicate forms the types of communities we form: communities where the highest good sought is great entertainment and prestige (“he prepares for those podcasts like none other, and asks banger questions!”) or communities oriented toward the truth and encounters with the real.
- I can’t tell whether this is so obvious it doesn’t merit mentioning, or so fundamental it’s hard to see, but I’ve noticed recently that there seem to be two core approaches people take to establishing trust in communication. Call them “truth-seeking” and “community-seeking.” Most people seem to have a dominant social mode in which they operate basi... See more
from Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
- For me, it became crucial to notice what is in fact "illusory" about the self. It's not an illusion in the sense of being a completely useless, even malignant, deception. It's a complex of narratives, judgments, and strategies that developed to help me maintain some relatively reliable social-emotional standing. It served, and serves, a purpose.
from Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind
This is because the so-called self is a construct of words and memories, of fantasies which have no existence in immediate reality.
from Become What You Are: Expanded Edition by Alan W. Watts
KNOWLEDGE WORK (GENERAL DEFINITION) The economic activity in which knowledge is transformed into an artifact with market value through the application of cognitive effort.
from Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
To embrace slow productivity, in other words, is to reorient your work to be a source of meaning instead of overwhelm, while still maintaining the ability to produce valuable output.
from Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Slow productivity supports legacy-building accomplishments but allows them to unfold at a more human speed.
from Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
what we really need—more so than righteous disdain or brash new policy—is a slower conception of what it even means to be productive in the first place.
from Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
“They’re at the vanguard of a movement that’s leveraging the disruptions of the pandemic to question so many more of the arbitrary assumptions that have come to define the modern workplace.”
from Slow Productivity by Cal Newport