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Opinion | You’re Too Busy. You Need a ‘Shultz Hour.’ (Published 2017)
In college, you get assigned hard things. You’re taught to look at paintings and think about science in challenging ways. After college, most of us resolve to keep doing this kind of thing, but we’re busy and our brains are tired at the end of the day. Months and years go by. We get caught up in stuff, settle for consuming Twitter and, frankly, jou
... See moreDavid Brooks • A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person
We have forgotten how to look forward to things, and how to enjoy the moment when they arrive. Restaurants report that hurried diners increasingly pay the bill and order a taxi while eating dessert. Many fans leave sporting events early, no matter how close the score is, simply to steal a march on the traffic. Then there is the curse of multi-taski
... See moreFarnam Street • In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
Psychologist Amos Tversky once said “the secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”
Morgan Housel • Page Not Found – Collab Fund
let’s return to my friend’s trailside quip: “Not everyone does deep work all the time.” Notice that this claim applies to Marshall: outside of long flights or train rides, he rarely sat for hours at a time thinking big thoughts about one thing. But he also avoided falling into a responsiveness trap. He didn’t run around putting out fires; he instea
... See moreCal Newport • A World Without Email
If real self-improvement is what we’re after, why do we leave our reading until those few minutes before we shut off the lights and go to bed? Why do we block off eight to ten hours in the middle of the day to be at the office or to go to meetings but block out no time for thinking about the big questions? The average person somehow manages to sque
... See moreStephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
To begin with, it acknowledges the reality that most of us don’t have the capacity for more than a few daily hours of intense concentration. But it also respects limitation in another important way: it frees you from the futile perfectionistic struggle to try to make the whole day unfold in accordance with your desires. It respects the fact that yo
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