Living ethically
How to live, work, stay calm, and enjoy myself without destroying the world
by juarry · updated 8d ago
Living ethically
juarry added 8d ago
It's my birthday this week! So I made a list of stuff I learned in my 30s.
juarry added 9d ago
How to get started when it feels like the world is ending
juarry added 9d ago
- This is the great paradox of behavior change. If you try to change your life all at once, you will quickly find yourself pulled back into the same patterns as before. But if you merely focus on changing your normal day, you will find your life changes naturally as a side effect.
from The Paradox of Behavior Change by James Clear
juarry added 17d ago
We’ve been given no shortage of digital tools that should, in theory, help us work better, with more focus and efficiency, and connect us more easily with our colleagues. Instead, email, instant messaging, remote-meeting apps, work-flow and project-management software and so on can feel like so many buckets with holes in the bottom, maddeningly in
... See morefrom The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down by Cal Newport
juarry added 20d ago
- "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)
juarry added 20d ago
When you’re first getting to know someone, you don’t want to try to peer into their souls right away. It’s best to look at something together.
from How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
juarry added 23d ago
When you’re practicing Illuminationism, you’re offering a gaze that says, “I want to get to know you and be known by you.” It’s a gaze that positively answers the question everybody is unconsciously asking themselves when they meet you: “Am I a person to you? Do you care about me? Am I a priority for you?” The answers to those questions are conveye
... See morefrom How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
juarry added 23d ago
• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
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• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
• If you stop to listenfrom 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known by kk.org
juarry added 23d ago
- Babel is a metaphor for what some forms of social media have done to nearly all of the groups and institutions most important to the country’s future—and to us as a people
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