Mike "Bagel"
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Mike "Bagel"
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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
... 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?
KNOWLEDGE WORK (GENERAL DEFINITION) The economic activity in which knowledge is transformed into an artifact with market value through the application of cognitive effort.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
If you’re stuck trying to solve poorly defined problems with your slick, well-defined problem-solving skills and you’re lucky enough to have a grandma like mine still on this Earth, my god, go see her. Shut up and listen to her for a while. And once you’ve learned something, maybe ask her if she needs help with her TV.
Adam Mastroianni • Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
—Baba Dioum
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Work will feel different when you shift from seeking enoughness through work to a place where you already believe that you are enough. You start to choose work that you genuinely enjoy. I’m finding joy in my work today that I’ve never known before.
David Spinks • How to Downshift
But this strategy of defense brings to mind the slogan Keep Austin Weird , which has since been repurposed for Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and other formerly groovy towns. These calls are sad because they fail the second they are uttered. When you are forced to demand the preservation of the weird, the shark hath jumped.
