Life Lessons
Generalities and specificities worth remembering
Life Lessons
Notes to myself
- The system can be changed and normal is not permanent
- Find the smallest viable audience
- Pick your customers, pick your future
- Outdated maps might be worth less than no map at all
- Reliability is a superpower
- There are no side effects, merely effects
- There’s usually an opportunity to be of service
- Silence is an option, and so is leadership
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Seth's Blog • Notes to Myself
Resilience is a practice
It’s easy to imagine that we should do our work and then, when it doesn’t work as we hope, improvise to fix it.
But perhaps our work is to show up ready and willing to deal with a future we didn’t expect.
I keep writing about it because we all need to keep thinking about it. Especially me.
My friend Ava curated this list:
It’s easy to imagine that we should do our work and then, when it doesn’t work as we hope, improvise to fix it.
But perhaps our work is to show up ready and willing to deal with a future we didn’t expect.
I keep writing about it because we all need to keep thinking about it. Especially me.
My friend Ava curated this list:
Resilience is a practice
Bringing goodwill to the conversation
Education is distinct from learning. Organized education is a form of indoctrination and certification. Sometimes it leads to learning, but not always.
You can win at education by figuring out what’s on the test (or what the boss wants) and parroting it back. In fact, that’s the easiest way to do so.
Learning is... See more
Education is distinct from learning. Organized education is a form of indoctrination and certification. Sometimes it leads to learning, but not always.
You can win at education by figuring out what’s on the test (or what the boss wants) and parroting it back. In fact, that’s the easiest way to do so.
Learning is... See more