motivation to build stuff in public
Experts and specialists are important contributors to most sustainability projects, but we also need integrators and generalists who can help to put the contribution of each discipline into systemic relationships and help to contextualize the contributions made by the specialists.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts
We need to recognize that idleness, not work, is the true curse, and that good work affords us one of our best opportunities to become better versions of ourselves and make meaningful contributions to the lives of others.
The Work Cure – Richard Gunderman
Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
-David Ogilvy
My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes
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References obstruct your bias toward action. It is common that Action Steps get lost in the shuffle of nonactionable stuff. The more energy you spend on scribbling down notes, the more liable you are to miss the opportunity to capture valuable Action Steps. Even if you do manage to write the Action Steps down, they often become obscured amidst
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You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.
Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
Seth Godin • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Profound change rarely comes from direct interventions in the world. Rather, it comes from working indirectly over time, helping people engage consciously to develop their own understanding, motivations, aspirations, and will.