You must devote yourself to the cause of your life.

You live in a world that tells you to work in eight hour stretches, and that is productivity. You live in a world that tells you to devote forty years of your life to a career you are lukewarm about, and that is safety. You live in a world that tells you to surround yourself with as many people as possible, and that is connection. You live in a wor

Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—the book you’re writing, the album, the movie—and staying there for a long, long time.

“The pleasure in thinking and doing things well is such a deep-wired human pleasure . . . and it feels (to me) diluted when it’s linked to productivity.”