I know a few things, but I still got a lot to learn.

Stop treating knowledge work as manual work. Instead of measuring success by irrelevant or arbitrary metrics, ask yourself, Did I contribute today?

Did you advance the conversation? Did you solve a problem? Did you come up with a good idea? Did you help a colleague or a client?

"I’ve become convinced that what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else." (Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism)

'In my experience,' he told me, 'if you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either. Now, running to a thing, that's a different matter,

It’s easy to absorb other people’s values without realizing it. I discussed my photo realization with a friend, who shared a story. On his first school field trip to New York, his mom gave him a disposable camera and said, "You can take photos of the buildings and the Statue of Liberty if you want, but remember to mostly take photos of your... See more