my biggest fear
- People will sometimes approach me with projects I don't really want to do. But if I do them, those people will smile and shake my hand and go, “We feel positive emotions, and it's because of you!” and that will feel good. So I often end up signing on to these projects, feeling resentful the whole time, cursing myself for choosing—freely!—to work ha... See more
from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
Agalia Tan added 3mo ago
- About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way t... See morefrom So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
Agalia Tan added 3mo ago
- In his own fine post on baseball and optimization a couple of years back, Rob Horning cited Melissa Gregg who observed that “personal productivity is an epistemology without an ontology, a framework for knowing what to do in the absence of a guiding principle for doing it.”
from The Limits of Optimization by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Agalia Tan added 3mo ago
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