Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
Thus our strange relationship with the pain of grief. In the early days, we wish only for it to end; later on, we fear that it will. And when it finally does begin to ease, it also does not, because, at first, feeling better can feel like loss, too.
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
The next time you encounter an obstacle in your path, immediately look for ways to maneuver around it, through it, under it, or over it. When the obstacle loses your focus, it loses its power.
Ghost Resources • 🔥 Why We've Misunderstood What It Means to "Focus"
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 ma
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
This is the big one. If you’re conducting blue sky imagineering improv meetings on a regular basis, that’s very tough to pull off remotely. There’s something about the physical presence of people in a room, seeing their faces, hearing their voices, watching their body language, that is far more conducive to quickly bouncing ideas around and figurin... See more
First Round Capital • Here’s Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest
cases against remote
There’s this shift since the pandemic from trying to fit your personal life into your professional life to fitting your professional life into your personal life. A lot of people are seeing they are able to do that while by creating their own business,” Pardue said
on April 18 • Burnout fueling turnover – and having significant impact on entrepreneurship
Do you want to figure out how to fit your professional life into your personal life, rather than the opposite?
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
Humans in more or less our current modern form have walked the earth for roughly three hundred thousand years. For all but the last ten thousand or so of these many years, we lived as seminomadic hunters and gatherers. These timescales are sufficiently vast for the insistent logics of natural selection to adapt our bodies and brains toward an exist
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
There is the kindness of ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ And the kindness of “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” The small kindnesses that smooth our interactions and help other people feel as though you’re aware of them .