Here’s How I’m Preparing For The Next Four Years - RyanHoliday.net
There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Start thinking like a radical pragmatist: still ambitious, aggressive, and rooted in ideals, but also imminently practical and guided by the possible. Not on everything you would like to have, not on changing the world right at this moment, but ambitious enough to get everything you need. Don’t think small, but make the distinction between the crit
... See moreRyan Holiday • The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Uncertainty is here to stay. Learning to face the unknown well is critical to our ability to survive and thrive.
Nathan Furr • The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown
the unpredictable is totally predictable. We know that life will throw these curveballs at us nearly every month, so it falls to us to prepare for the inevitable.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Naturally, these three ideas — uncertainty ability, the experimental organization, and strategy as creation — are just a sampling of the approaches we see emerging as complements to strategy in more stable markets. Uncertainty science doesn’t invalidate the prior strategic frameworks, but it does draw a boundary line, arguing that if you want to cr... See more
Nathan Furr • Strategy in an Age of Uncertainty
Approach the future with fervent curiosity, not with an ideology or itinerary but with a methodology that progresses with questions: what do we need to do now? What do we need to be now? What must we preserve at all cost?