Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
"Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. Happiness comes from the appreciation of this flow, not just from the pursuit of the banks."
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“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.”
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
This sudden interest in workplace experimentation is both welcome and needed, as much about how we work in the knowledge sector today is ossified into tradition and conventions, some of which are arbitrary and some of which are borrowed from different, older types of work. The proposals making waves at the moment, however, feel somehow insufficient
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Wonderful analogy
the ultimate friend hacks are to tell people when you’re thinking about them, never worry about double texting, remove all inhibition about being annoying and to just be spontaneously loving
Isabelsubstack.comEach of us are already storytellers, but often we’re not the authors of them.
We are storytellers by default—assigning meaning to our experiences according to the cultural and familial scripts we’ve inherited and missing the chance to choose our own beginnings, endings, and adventures in the middle.
No one lacks meaning in their lives.
What many of us
... See moreRick Lewis • Why You Should Start Living in the Past
Stop treating knowledge work as manual work. Instead of measuring success by irrelevant or arbitrary metrics, ask yourself, Did I contribute today?
Did you advance the conversation? Did you solve a problem? Did you come up with a good idea? Did you help a colleague or a client?
Did you advance the conversation? Did you solve a problem? Did you come up with a good idea? Did you help a colleague or a client?
Ozan Varol • You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol
Hidden from the world at Chawton cottage, suddenly, almost miraculously free of most responsibilities both domestic and social, Austen, for the first time in over a decade, had gained real and meaningful space to think and work creatively. It’s here, working at a modest writing desk by a window overlooking the road, that she finally finishes the
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Like the starry vibe