Living ethically
How to live, work, stay calm, and enjoy myself without destroying the world
Living ethically
How to get started when it feels like the world is ending
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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
... See moreThis 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
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
8 practical ways to make money with open-source projects.
1) Premium code: (Open-Core)
The open core model is a business strategy where you offer most of your code as free and open source.
However, an add-on commercial version is released as proprietary software.
Example: Dragula Pro by Zeno Rocha -($250K in 2.5 years )
2) Open SaaS:
Open SaaS allows... See more
1) Premium code: (Open-Core)
The open core model is a business strategy where you offer most of your code as free and open source.
However, an add-on commercial version is released as proprietary software.
Example: Dragula Pro by Zeno Rocha -($250K in 2.5 years )
2) Open SaaS:
Open SaaS allows... See more
Sachin Neravath on LinkedIn: I made $100k in revenue from an open-source JavaScript library in 14…
Slow media promote Monotasking . Slow Media cannot be consumed casually, but provoke the full concentration of their users. As with the production of a good meal, which demands the full attention of all senses by the cook and his guests, Slow Media can only be consumed with pleasure in focused alertness.
The Slow Media Manifesto – Slow Media
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
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
dreamers addicted to reality instead of realists addicted to dreams.
-Neri Oxman on what she looks for when hiring