Living ethically
How to live, work, stay calm, and enjoy myself without destroying the world
Living ethically
How do you write from the place in your gut where love dwells? The Sufi poet Rumi said, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Gabe Berman • The Complete Bullshit-Free and Totally Tested Writing Guide How to Make Publishers, Agents, Editors & Readers Fall in Love With Your Work
"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)
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.
James Clear • The Paradox of Behavior Change
"Embracing risk, fear, and rejection gives you the power to transform your life."
– Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours von Noah Kagan
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– Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours von Noah Kagan
https://a.co/aqSajv1
It was Descartes, too, who formed the project of a School of Arts and Crafts, where each artisan would learn fully to understand the theoretical bases of his own craft; he thus showed himself to be more socialist, in the matter of culture, than all Marx’s disciples
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
Charlie Becker wrote about “psychological richness” and I wonder if that ties into my new thinking on leisure (it feels dirty to turn leisure into a framework, but here it is:). Nature, friendship, art, culture, psyche. “Richness” feels like a relevant word because these 5 points are a kind of satisfaction that can’t be bought (your aesthetic
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I’ve always felt that if there wasn’t so much pressure—just a little more time—I could do really well.