good work
How much of our work exists because we ‘think’ we have to do it?
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
World's Hardest Problems
Sustainability + Human Development Is the food we eat scalable, sustainable, healthy, nutritious and tasty? Is the air we breathe clean? Is the water we drink pure? Is there a way to produce energy that is relatively abundant, cheap and clean? Is there a way to reverse or mitigate climate chan...
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So to have your precious days consumed by purposeless labor, mind-numbing tasks, and the commercialization of your thoughts and creativity, for tasks better suited for machines is an affront to the universe.
Aaron Lawson • A Knowledge Worker’s Manifesto — knowledge work studio
To quote the always-brilliant Philip Kiely: “First you do X, then you make content about doing X, then you make content about that content… One day you realize you haven’t done X for six months. And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction.”
Shaun Wang • The Meta-Creator Ceiling
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
Henrik Karlssonopen.substack.com