Evolution

This, too, is evolution at work. It’s not that evolution ever lets us stop playing the “get more resources” game, it’s that our strategy evolves. Once baseline needs are met, you can devote yourself to ways to get, well, you guessed it, seriously more resources—for yourself, for your family, for your tribe, for your species. As high-minded as somet

When you go deeper into the stack you realize this: in order to be productive, you need to have an end toward which you are working. You also need to have a means or a strategy to get there.

Ideas in psychology, philosophy, and literature can help you understand your ends—to choose them more consciously, and to choose new ones if the ones you’ve alr

Try it for yourself, ask why you set out freelancing in the first place, what does evolution mean to you? Then ask “and why is that important?” four or five times to arrive at your real, underlying, specific goal.

Evolution as a mental model can be summed up as “adapt or die.” We think, however, it is important to understand not only how we can adapt, but what it is we are responding to when we do.

Paradoxically, evolution is the impulse toward both differentiation and union. Our personal process of individuation brings us simultaneously into a greater sense of our distinct individual identity and a greater identification with the whole of life.