Fulfilling work

It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process, is to guarantee disappointment.

Maybe you could try this : open ChatGPT or Claude. List your skills List your income and savings rate List what you’re willing to do/learn Ask it to give you ideas on what you need to do to make $X at the end of the year. Tell it to come up with a structured plan.

a lot of people who claim to be exhausted all the time might be better off if they tried to do more

one reason to devote yourself to meaningful work is that your desire to numb yourself and escape your life rapidly declines and it becomes quite natural and easy to abandon any escape-y habits that you developed or flirted with when you were living in a way that wasn’t aligned.

Still, once you internalize the “Do ten times as much” norm, you are in for some soul-searching. If you want to learn a foreign language, you need to budget about two thousand hours. If you want to master a technical subject, you need to budget about five thousand hours. If you want your kids to be pious Orthodox Jews, move to an Orthodox neighborh... See more

best editing advice i ever heard was from walter murch when he says when you find the moment you love the most b/c it's the *perfect* summation of everything you want to convey - take it out. & see how everything else around it fills that void in a newer, stronger way

There are places in the incentive landscape where the incentives are aligned with your values, and your job is to find them

It is not that I’m some grumpy person who thinks that some people are great and others aren’t, in some predetermined way—I think you can to a large extent decide which kind you want to be. But if someone else isn’t measuring up, I have no idea how to convince them to do so. So I look for people who have already decided.