Mike "Bagel"

“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

The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level.

There’s a connection between novelty and joy. — Jacqueline Lovell-Lantz, Sandy, Utah

That’s when it hit me.

I knew my stories.

Suddenly, I was beating the blank page. The more life experiences I recalled, the more enriched and enlivened I became. It was as though I was just discovering the gifts hidden in my past. I’d never understood the importance of self-reflection. The truth is, life moves too quickly to fully appreciate or craft

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.