Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
“A lot of writing consists of waiting around for the aquarium to settle so you can see the fish. Walking around muttering seems to hasten the process. Taking public transportation nowhere helps. Looking out the bus window lets the back of your mind move forward. Don’t listen to anything but natural sound. Don’t look at anything you have to turn on.... See more
Austin Kleon • The North Shore
Why thinking? Why is thinking significant? Why try to improve your thinking? The answer is simple: Only through thinking (and taking action based on the right assumptions) can you change whatever it is about your life that needs changing (even the parts you don’t know need changing). Only through thinking can you take command of your future. A good
... See moreMike Barugel • Fwd: Welcome to the Thinking Edge
our lives, thanks to their finitude, are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time. Just as there will be a final occasion on which I pick up my son—a thought that appalls me, but one that’s hard to deny, since I surely won’t be doing it when he’s thirty—there will be a last time that you visit your childhood home, or... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
So much of self-regulation comes down to 2 interrelated powers: 1) keeping yourself inspired, and 2) keeping yourself accountable.
Recognizing in a felt way that “this is worth doing”, and that “I’m responsible for doing it.”
Dr. Gena Gorlinsubstack.com
Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.
Eric Jorgenson • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The self is an illusion
This is why I love my team and the people I have been lucky enough to find in this life 😜
Far from glamorizing a surreptitious, disciplined busyness, Austen’s story, when told properly, seems to promote the opposite of this approach. Austen was not able to produce creatively during the crowded periods of her life. It was only when, through circumstance and contrivance, her obligations were greatly reduced that Austen was able, finally,
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