A quiet afternoon...

An unkink hose feels like…

The freedom to know your version of enough. Take a pause, any kind of pause at any kind of time and not beat yourself up for it.

Light speed clarity.

The freedom to not set huge radical business goals just cos everyone else is, cos it's just not your time to over-hustle.

Spaciousness.

The freedom to politely decline the reques

Steve Jobs’ motivation was to express a gratitude for the human species — and he did this by putting care and love into things he made.

— a synopsis of one of Jony Ive’s answers from the interview between Jony Ive and Anna Wintour in RE:WIRED 2021.

Define Your Way of Life

"But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."

This is my favorite insight from the letter: Identify how you want to live, not what you want to achieve.

So often people focus all their energy on the summits—but complet

"Learn to like what doesn't cost much.

Learn to like reading, conversation, music.

Learn to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking.

rowns i in h, trees, brooks, hiking,

Learn to like people, even though some of them may be different... different from Yearn to like to work and enjoy the satisfaction doing your job as well as it can be done.

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