WRITE AFTER THE KIDS GO TO BED

PRINCIPLE #1: DO FEWER THINGS Strive to reduce your obligations to the point where you can easily imagine accomplishing them with time to spare. Leverage this reduced load to more fully embrace and advance the small number of projects that matter most.

The pandemic didn’t drown them in new work, but it did seem to suddenly inflate the quantity of overhead tax they were paying.

Inspired in part by this article, I’ve become convinced in recent years that pull workflows are a powerful tool to avoid overload in the knowledge work setting. If you’re in a position to change the way your company or team organizes its work, moving to a pull strategy, similar to that deployed by the technology development group at the Broad Insti

Obsess over the quality of what you produce, even if this means missing opportunities in the short term. Leverage the value of these results to gain more and more freedom in your efforts over the long term.

REDUCE YOUR SALARY

They also formed labor unions as a counterbalance to the more dehumanizing aspects of industrialization.

“Irresponsibility requires eternal vigilance,” Feynman told the Los Angeles Times in a 1986 profile. “And I failed! I wasn’t careful enough when this presidential commission thing came up. I flunked my own principle.” A plan to simply become too unpleasant to be bothered, it seems, isn’t sustainable. There are only so many times you can offer an un

Proposition: Work Poetically