If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook
If you don’t have time to do it right, how will you find the time to do it over?
Chores
seths.blogNot sure if anything changed my approach to work and engineering in the past five years more than this passage from @Lethain, written in the context of staff engineering but much more broadly applicable.
"Professionals stick to the schedule, amateurs let life get in the way. Professionals know what is important to them and work towards it with purpose, amateurs get pulled off course by the urgencies of life." - James Clear
James Clear • The Difference Between Professionals and Amateurs
Things I'm thinking about
sublimeinternet.substack.com“Procrastinating on something important is choosing to delay a better future.”
James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com
“DOING SOMETHING It is so much easier to not do something than to do something. Even the smallest task, like filling out a Scholastic Books order form or putting away the butter, requires time, focus, and follow-through. It’s astounding, actually, that anything gets done at all, by anyone. But then, let’s say you finally are prepared and determined
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