Life design
by Natasha Wiscombe · updated 5h ago
Life design
- There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.
from Every’s Master Plan by Dan Shipper
Natasha Wiscombe added 2mo ago
Question on rejecting the status quo:
Is it time you start living outside the box?
There's a passage from Nassim Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes that hit me hard:
"They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the
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- Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can ... See morefrom What Can We Remove? by Steph Ango
Natasha Wiscombe added 3mo ago
Life satisfaction is highly consistent with your personality. 🧵1/10 https://t.co/JyzoV8rXT7Natasha Wiscombe added 3mo ago
Life satisfaction levers / research
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
by Maria Popova
Natasha Wiscombe added 3mo ago
“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,”wrote the thirty-year-old Nietzsche. “The true and durable path into and through experience,” Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney counseled the young more than a century later in his magnificent commencement address, “involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.”
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Something that has been on my mind lately: things take time. https://t.co/uc2Szlyt4bNatasha Wiscombe added 2mo ago
- A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how t... See more
from why you should write more by Ava
Natasha Wiscombe added 2mo ago
- Czech president and writer Vaclav Havel:
“Hope (...) is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we ... See moreNatasha Wiscombe added 2mo ago