Brian Sholis
@briansholis
Brian Sholis
"This counsel is surely weighted toward white-collar knowledge work, although I hope it’s at least somewhat valuable to any reader."
Derek Thompson • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
- “On the elegant analog clock, meanwhile, time swells and recedes, like waves and seasons and life. The hands evoke the rotation of the earth, the movements of celestial objects, the cosmos.”
New York Times • How Analog Clocks Can Give Us More by Giving Us Less (Published 2020)
* “Instead of growing your Rolodex, double down on your best friendships, and find your 10 Club.”
David Perell • The Fruits of Friendship - David Perell
* "I find that people often believe they have a writing technique problem, when, actually, what they have is a sincerity problem."
Sasha Chapin • If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
- “… a clock is anything that undergoes irreversible changes: changes in which energy spreads out among more particles or into a broader area.”
Natalie Wolchover • The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks | Quanta Magazine
* “Growth takes twice as long as you think and is twice as hard. The biggest advantage you can give yourself is to devote as much of your energy, resources and focus to the actual content itself rather than the sugar high of piling up big follower and subscriber numbers that are likely more quantity than quality.”