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
To try
One year ago I launched an experiment: a long, open-ended, deep dive conversation show based on a premise: I'm enamored with people who make things and love getting to know them by way of their ideas.
More to come soon, but some reflections on Dialectic’s anniversary:
I'd long imagined doing... See more
Jackson Dahlsubstack.comI think that kind of environmental design where it's like okay I'm going to go out and the only computer I'll bring with me is my daylight and all it'll have on this is blank activities that I've pre-selected to be good for me and so then it's not daylight versus dopamine addictive Loops it's daylight versus picking your nose and I think that is... See more
Reader
One of the things I’ve found just for kind of managingmyself is that if I try to just go straight into the day, almost every morning when I wake up and read through my emails and get the news, it’s almost like getting punched with sort of like a ton of new context. And it’s like, “Okay, I need to internalize this.” So I found that doing... See more
Mark Zuckerberg • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Mark Zuckerberg on Long-Term Strategy, Business and Parenting Principles, Personal Energy Management, Building the Metaverse, Seeking Awe, the Role of Religion, Solving Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and More (#582)
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
... See moreCal 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?
If life is short, we should expect its shortness to take us by surprise. And that is just what tends to happen. You take things for granted, and then they're gone. You think you can always write that book, or climb that mountain, or whatever, and then you realize the window has closed. The saddest windows close when other people die. Their lives... See more