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.
James Clearx.comI feel like I say this to a lot of people, especially aspiring fiction writers. In my experience, it is really important to do two things.
One: You have to train yourself to notice things. It's not 100% natural at first – it certainly wasn’t for me – but raising those antennae is a very worthwhile thing to do. And it snowballs: once I got started... See more
One: You have to train yourself to notice things. It's not 100% natural at first – it certainly wasn’t for me – but raising those antennae is a very worthwhile thing to do. And it snowballs: once I got started... See more
Robin Sloan • Tasting Notes With Robin Sloan
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD).
Time and time again, it is when the rubber of ambition meets the road of practicality that things get tough.
Sari Azout • Figuring it out, again and again
There are places in the incentive landscape where the incentives are aligned with your values, and your job is to find them