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You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.

kepano • Tweet

Working right trumps finding the right work.

Cal Newport • So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

The projects flourish when we keep learning something new and challenge ourselves

“The best results arrive from solid and trustful relationships.” Atelier ...

the pinnacle of Brodovitch's career as a designer was the unfailing elegance of his pages. This elegance, combined with an element of innovation was the ideal mix for a fashion magazine. The quality that guaranteed his success was his devotion to the new, unending surprise and vitality

Kerry William Purcell • Alexey Brodovitch

Don’t make up problems you don’t have yet. It’s not a problem until it’s a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.

David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” - Bruce Lee

Instapaper • Instapaper-ReadLater-2022-11-02-oowGaQ

A cliché quote at this point, but I’m still thinking about it’s true meaning.

a philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles:

1. Do few things.

2. Work at a natural pace.

3. Obsess over quality.

Slow Productivity - Michael Karnjanaprakorn

“Fragmented bronze portrait of Marcus Aurelius embodies his Stoic philosophy: Even the once commanding visage of the Roman emperor is not impervious to Time. Echoing his Meditations, that all life is fleeting & you'll be fortunate if your deeds survive in the memory of the living.”

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Never bet against the person who just keeps showing up.