Fulfilling work

It’s possible to be humble and learn from other people while also recognizing that the best strategy for you is the one closest aligned with your unique personality and skills.

A few things happen when you do.

You do your best work and have the most fun when you’re not burdened by fear that someone else thinks you’re doing it wrong.

You measure how... See more

Morgan Housel • Your Way Is the Only Way

A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.

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

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... See more

Uncle Ari x.com

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.

Isabel x.com

Creativity has two parts:- Creative discovery mode: shuffling things around, exploring. Playful.- Implementation mode: creating something robust and concrete.- Revisit the work the next day in an alert state and assess whether it is ready for linear implementation.

Andrew Huberman • Optimize Your Learning & Creativity with Science-based Tools

As my work-driven identity dissolved, I felt a burning ambition across all facets of life. Instead of a desire to achieve goals that society told me were valuable, I felt a hunger to discover what makes me feel fully alive. Instead of a commitment to “winning” other people’s games, I felt a commitment to design a life that I deeply enjoy... See more

Sam Sager • Work, Ambition, and Identity

The Creative Process 5 Steps: 1. Gather new material: - At first, you learn. During this stage you focus on learning specific material directly related to your task and learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range of concepts. 2 . Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind: During this stage, you examine what you... See more

James Clear • For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps

If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag... See more

Morgan Housel • Your Way Is the Only Way

Sari Azout • Figuring it out, again and again

Andrew Huberman • Optimize Your Learning & Creativity with Science-based Tools

Sam Sager • Work, Ambition, and Identity

James Clear • For a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 Steps

Create things that come alive