slow and steady wins the race!!
how to keep going at it
slow and steady wins the race!!
« You won’t lose your job to AI, you’ll lose your job to someone using AI. »
This is another recurring idea in the public discourse. I don’t like it. I think it instills fear by stressing the idea of scarcity (jobs will be lost) and asking people to compete for the now scarce resource (learn AI or suffer).
I prefer a more benevolent stance, even
... See moreI’ve always that stock phrase as well. This is a brilliant reframe
Staying small doesn’t have to be a stepping-stone to something else, or the result of a business failure — rather, it can be an end goal or a smart long-term strategy. The point of being a company of one is to become better in ways that don’t incur the typical setbacks of growth.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?
bikeshed.comteaches me I better fixate less on the microscopic details of the stuff I’m launching if the real big problem matter more
One of the surprising and counter-cultural truths about modern-day marketing, which I suspect drives many efficiency-minded people practically insane, is that physical direct mail continues to work really, really well.It makes no sense purely from an efficiency standpoint because it's a very expensive way of reaching a single person. But from an... See more
Rory Sutherland • Rory Sutherland on LinkedIn: #advertising #creativity #behaviouralccience | 348 comments
Totally explain why I’ve always felt a sense of curiosity and excitement towards marketing material I got mailed to me over the last 10 years
Never forget why you got into doing what you’re doing
In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
yes!
In short, once you accept the hard truth that building a career and earning money is not the everlasting source of happiness and meaning you believed it would be, you can start to look outside the box you built for yourself.
What is meaningful work?
👩💻How to Reinvent Yourself (& Your Website) — with Anita Cheung
podcasts.apple.comOn starting over, pivoting, learning how to be comfortable with risk and widening our window of tolerance