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
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
The humanities are our most treasured—and useless—“special skills.” And it is their very uselessness—their determination to remain uncorrupted by models of efficiency and optimization—that is their saving grace.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
• 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 listen
Kevin Kelly • 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
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.comIf we’re not careful, we can get stuck in the Disinterest Zone for years, maybe decades, simply because it’s what pays the bills.
Michael Hyatt • Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
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
"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)
Culture, he announced defiantly, had become the new counterculture.