Productivity
‘One never notices what has been done; one can see only what remains to be done.’ – MARIE CURIE
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Marie Curie understood, our default stance is to measure our actual accomplishments against all the things we could, in principle, still do.
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
The best way to not let a project’s spectacular success get you too high or its spectacular failure get you too low, Ryan likes to say, is to be already working on the next project by the time the many deciding factors decide that success or failure.
It's going to take a long time.
Months at least. Probably years.
Accept that. Show up anyway. https://t.co/34jWqoowr1
1. No job is below you.
2. Conflict is better than consensus.
3. Conventional wisdom is uninteresting.
4. Don't treat your job as a stepping stone.
5. To get the job you want, master the one you have.
6. If you don't get what you want, be prepared to walk away.
7. "The world belongs to the discontented." - Robert Woodruff
8. Make all decisions from a... See more
2. Conflict is better than consensus.
3. Conventional wisdom is uninteresting.
4. Don't treat your job as a stepping stone.
5. To get the job you want, master the one you have.
6. If you don't get what you want, be prepared to walk away.
7. "The world belongs to the discontented." - Robert Woodruff
8. Make all decisions from a... See more
How to increase agency *and* have fun:
Work less. Focus more. https://t.co/0V2qAH0WYX
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
Tim Ferrissx.com