Mike "Bagel"

@bagelpuc

Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector

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But finally, I’d like to argue that following the news isn’t just a waste of time, it’s actively unhealthy. Edward Tufte notes that when he used to read the New York Times in the morning, it scrambled his brain with so many different topics that he couldn’t get any real intellectual work done the rest of the day.

Aaron Swartz • I Hate the News (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

building better habits

I think of my parents and all the people who over-consume the news

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.

Amanda Petrusich • Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life

death & grieving

🤝 A delightful introduction

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A helpful syntax:

[I/We] + [verb] + [people] + [achieve a result]

verb could be help, unlock, teach, nurture etc,.

people: who do you work with? or help? leaders, visionaries, mom’s and pop’s, the next generation.

achieve a result: what do you help these people accomplish?

🤝 A delightful introduction

For our purposes, the key observation from Dyble’s study is the uneven nature of the foragers’ efforts. A busy start to a fishing expedition might also involve a long nap in the boat during the midday doldrums. An exhausting hunting trip might be followed by multiple days waiting out the rain, doing very little. The rice-farming Agta, by contrast,

Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it

hinterlander • Tweet

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In a setting where activity provides a proxy for productivity, the introduction of tools like email (and, later, Slack) that make it possible to visibly signal your busyness with minimal effort inevitably led to more and more of the average knowledge worker’s day being dedicated to talking about work, as fast and frantically as possible, through

Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

When will we face the reality that “mouse-moving” and status-updating is not productive?