Fulfilling work
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... See more
Bryan Caplan • Do Ten Times as Much
a lot of people who claim to be exhausted all the time might be better off if they tried to do more
Simon Sarrisx.comThere are places in the incentive landscape where the incentives are aligned with your values, and your job is to find them
Henrik Karlsson • 6 Lessons I Learned Working at an Art Gallery
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
Farnam Streetfs.blog
[I]f I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy... See more
Frederick Buechner • Listening to Your Life — Frederick Buechner
Design is hope made visible.
You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what’s to come. You choose.
When talent doesn’t hustle, hustle beats talent. But when talent hustles, watch out.
When you work only for money, without any love for what you do in and of itself, your work will... See more