The work is never just “the work” | Are.na
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The work is never just “the work” | Are.na
This phenomenon is closely related to Parkinson’s Law, which states that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” In personal projects, the available time is often infinite, leading to endless expansion
Tomas Stropus • The Art of Finishing
Work we have yet to complete, or any aspect of our life that distracts us, creates existential overhead. As existential overhead mounts, our effectiveness diminishes. Visualizing work reduces the distractions of existential overhead by transforming fuzzy concepts into tangible objects that your brain can easily grasp and prioritize.
Tonianne DeMaria Barry • Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life
“When we work for someone else, we show up and we do the work. And yet, as creatives, we constantly seem to be able to make excuses for ourselves as to why we can’t start the work now. At the end of the day, excuses, no matter how powerful, don’t get the work done.”
M. Andrew McConnell • Get Out of My Head: Creating Modern Clarity With Stoic Wisdom
the work of defining what needs to be done is harder than doing the work itself
Everything around me was someone’s lifework | Are.na
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work execution, describes the act of actually executing the underlying value-producing activities of knowledge work—the programmer coding, the publicist writing the press release.