On Doing
I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing…
— Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road"
David Sherryx.comMary Oliver on avoiding regrets:
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.”
Packy McCormick • Vertical Integrators
@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.comThe formulas for “success” and “failure” are the same
It’s the application of small actions/inactions consistently over a long time horizon
The difference between these two are the infinite small decisions you make on a daily basis - those little wins compound in dramatic ways
Rick Zullox.comA 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
The laziest engineers I went to school with and later worked with were always so damn good https://t.co/QHU9TSKTV6