current motivations
You will break through overtime if you are patient and make good quality stuff overtime — Susan Werner on “50 Fires” podcast
she also said “a secret in to life in the arts is finding the things you like doing that people like seeing you do”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
-Mary Oliver
-Mary Oliver
Vol. 8, The Kitchen Library
the things that have always worked will always work: solve real problems for real people and learn how to communicate that very, very clearly and well. There will always be something shiny to chase and distract from the essentials; the difficult part is to keep doing the things that have always worked.
💭 Real revenue with no grip & other mid-year learnings
Time is the best editor.
If you have it, time is the easiest trick for self-editing. Simply put your work away long enough so when you come back to it you can see it with fresh eyes.
Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
theguardian.comtheguardian.com
You can’t solve a problem you don’t understand. You can’t lead a field you haven’t immersed yourself in. You must go down the rabbit hole. You must go deep. You must swarm the topic.
Do You Know How To Do A Deep Dive? - RyanHoliday.net
At one point during the panel, I said the fact that I am a woman is — I think — the least interesting thing about me, and that I would love us to collectively reach a point where that was reflected in the external world
I Don't Think We're Living in The Handmaid's Tale
Most of the time, “What should I do with my life?” is a terrible question. “What should I do with this tennis serve?” “What should I do with this line at Starbucks?” “What should I do with this traffic jam?” “How should I respond to the anger I feel welling up in my chest?” These are better questions. Excellence is the next five minutes,
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