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"At the end of Middlemarch George Eliot says of Dorothea that “the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts,” and that captures better than I can my convictions on this point. Diffusive is the key word: an influence that subtly spreads, perhaps witho... See more
Alan Jacobs • DNA – Snakes and Ladders
Sindhu Shivaprasad added
what is important is not the number of direct or indirect reports you have, it is actually how big, useful and ethical impact you can make
Özgür Özdemircili • How Did I Pass the AWS Job Interview and Become a Technical Account Manager?
maxim added
Impacting the World This one is simple, but so dangerous. If the world is different because you are in it, then you must matter. You must be important if things changed because you exist. But if that’s what you believe, then the bigger the impact, the more you matter, and that can lead to some bad places.
Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
from paul millerd:
In the corporate world impact was so commonly tied up with top down ideological plans and i saw over and over again that they didn’t pan out.
If someone reads my book says they like it, and found it useful cool. I receive that compliment. But trying to come up with some random abstract big number of people I want to reach? It’s re
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Our model instincts are just not attuned to that at all, they are not sensitive to the sheer scale of what an individual is able to achieve if he or she is trying to make a really positive difference in the world.
Will MacAskill • Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
Juan Orbea added
For most of us, what we do with our lives isn’t cosmically significant. But if you can delude yourself a little bit that your Important Projects are going to Change the World, this will probably make you better at what you do, and ultimately help you collect more grubby resources and status and so on.
dynomight • Effectiveness beats accuracy
Johanna added