On Doing
@jposhaughnessy "The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. I believe that it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him … we must live for the future, not for our own comfort or success.”
– Admiral Rickover
Anna Gát 🧭x.com
The sub-optimal done consistently trumps the optimal done sporadically.
Can't talk about that endlessly on podcasts though.
Jeremy Giffonx.com
A final note on distinguishing experts from imitators: Many of us learn about a subject not by reading original research or listening to the expert, but by reading something intended to be highly transmissible. Think of the difference between reading an academic article and reading a newspaper article. While popularizers know more than the layman,... See more
Farnam Street • Experts vs. Imitators
“There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.”
Committed people do what interested people won’t.”
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
— Gustave Flaubert, 1876
Dylan O'Sullivanx.com