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On Shortcuts and Longcuts
Almost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.
Henrik Karlsson • On Shortcuts and Longcuts
“The long way is the short way.” In a cut-and-paste world that celebrates speed, we often mistake convenience for efficiency.
Ryder Carroll • The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of
... See moreAlmost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.
