on doing work that matters
To do great work, start by finding something you have a natural aptitude for, that you have deep interest in, and that offers scope to do great work, then work on projects related to that field. As you gain knowledge and experience, pay attention to gaps in understanding or areas that others overlook and boldly chase outlier ideas, even if they
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when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
What makes work good is time to read, think, slow down, and create a rich inner life. In other words, good work comes from slowing the fuck down and trusting that good ideas will come through if we give ourselves enough time and space to see them.
Paul Auster
More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.
Leadership Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin
In times like these, we are all in the process of transformation, and so is the world around us. The Great Work, the magnum opus, is the work we are all engaged in, whether we know it or not. The Great Work is the reassembling of the tiny shards of light into which the universe was shattered at the Creation. Every story we tell, every poem we... See more
Paul Kingsnorth • The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
Taste requires originality. It invokes an aspirational authenticity. Writer George Saunders calls this “achieving the iconic space,” and it’s what he’s after when he meets his creative writing students. “They arrive already wonderful. What we try to do over the next three years is help them achieve what I call their “iconic space” — the place from... See more