Living ethically
How to live, work, stay calm, and enjoy myself without destroying the world
Living ethically
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
My answer to her was simple: Begin. Rekindle your creative craft for a few moments every day. Don’t worry about the rest right now; simply sit down and make something.
Chase Jarvis • Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
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.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
It's my birthday this week! So I made a list of stuff I learned in my 30s.
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we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
Maxim Leyzerovichx.comTo face the storm you must learn to respond to it rather than react to it.
Patti Henry • The Emotionally Unavailable Man
The Distraction Zone is made up of things that you are passionate about but sadly have little proficiency for.
Michael Hyatt • Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
And since technology is not value neutral, to be a technologist is to be inherently opinionated about how the world ought to be. Each act of creation is a statement about one particular means to an end being the best possible means. As Saffron Huang writes, “[b]ringing something into existence is in fact endorsing that thing itself. As we hurtle... See more
Rebecca • On being a technologist
If we’re not careful, we can get stuck in the Disinterest Zone for years, maybe decades, simply because it’s what pays the bills.