Mike "Bagel"
I know that most people overrate the difficulty of hard conversations, and underrate how good it is to have them. Conflict avoidance slowly rots your whole life, and many people are about eight awkward discussions from a much-improved existence. In other words, go squash all of your beefs.
from 50 Things I Know by Sasha Chapin
I think that’s where the burnout really hurts—when you want to care about something but you’re removed from the capacity to do the thing or do it properly and give it your passion and full attention and creativity because you’re expected to do so many other things.
from Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
- Yet the fundamental loss remains—it doesn’t just dissipate—and, in a strange way, I think it can become a magnet for other losses. We come to see we are all simply creatures carrying around our ever-deepening loss. Small griefs seem to collect around the bigger primary grief. I think this realization allows us to become a true human being.
from Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life by Amanda Petrusich
- The Internet Vs. The Care of Your Soul
1. No laptop in bed.
2. No internet for at least 30 minutes before you got to sleep.
3. Nothing on your feed reader that posts more than X times per Y.
4. Being bored does not mean you have to check your email.
5. Don't only read websites related to subjects you know inside and out.
6. For every X feeds that you add... See more “Don’t make stuff because you want to make money—it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous—because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people—and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.” —John Green
from Keep Going by Austin Kleon
trying to make money off a creative pursuit they truly love.
And often doing those alone. (Or in a glass cage at a “coworking space”.) The traditional idea of a “9-5 office” is declining … along with a built-in structure to meet new friends with similar interests, face- to-face.
And along with guaranteed socializing every day.
from LONELINESS REPORT FINAL by static1.squarespace.com
“Grieving the loss of good things isn’t pathological. It’s human—something that happens to social animals with a deep natural desire to love and be loved. If anything is pathological, it’s pretending we’re not animals of this sort—that we’re somehow better off not loving than loving and losing the good things we love. Stoic practice encour- ages th
... See morefrom Ask Aristotle- Feb 25.indd by digital-goods.sqspcdn.com
The workers eventually—inevitably—fought back against this grim situation. They pushed for reform legislation, like the Fair Labor Standards Act (passed by the US Congress in 1938), which fixed forty hours as the standard workweek, limiting the fraction of the day that could be snared in monotonous effort without extra pay. They also formed labor u
... See morefrom Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
A recent study conducted by McKinsey and Lean In, for example, which surveyed more than sixty-five thousand North American employees, primarily from knowledge sector jobs, found a significant increase in those describing themselves as feeling burned out “often” or “almost always.” A subsequent Gallup poll showed that American workers are now among
... See morefrom Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
This is becoming far too common, and far too real