slow and steady wins the race!!
how to keep going at it
slow and steady wins the race!!
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
Never forget why you got into doing what you’re doing
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
– Joseph Campbell
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
Adding one extra feature nearly cost us our startup.
Monday morning, anxiety twisted in my chest as I deleted half of our codebase.
Our product was buried under features, each an attempt to stave off failure, yet leaving us on the brink of collapse. The team lingered, eyes glued to my screen.
“It’s too cluttered,” I finally said, swallowing my fear.
My
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Real Life Tortoise vs. Hare
youtu.bewhat inspired me to name this collection
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
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