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 Clear x.com

I 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

Robin Sloan • Tasting Notes With Robin Sloan

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

—Terry Pratchett

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

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

Don’t Sacrifice the Wrong Thing

Henrik Karlsson henrikkarlsson.xyz

There 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

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