Thought provoking
You are allowed to go off script. You can have multiple passions. You can make progress without a fixed purpose.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
meaningful productivity often comes not from hurrying things up but from letting them take the time they take, surrendering to what in German has been called Eigenzeit, or the time inherent to a process itself.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
It is the blankness of the paper that excites her, the idea that she might fill the space with anything she likes.
V. E. Schwab • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Anne-Laure Le Cunff (@neuranne)
Many people think productivity is about getting work done. But it’s not. Instead, it’s about making intentional progress. Sometimes that means taking a break, making time for thinking, exploring ideas, chatting with a friend.
Stowe Boyd • Most Popular 10 Work Futures' Posts of 2024
Information is little pieces of idea that you have. Your speed lists will probably consist mostly of information.
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as kno... See more
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as kno... See more
Theory of Notebooks
Giant sequoias, advanced organisms, towering mountains – it builds the most jaw-dropping features of the universe. And it does so silently, where growth is almost never visible right now but staggering over long periods of time.
It’s quiet compounding, and it’s a wonder to see.
It’s quiet compounding, and it’s a wonder to see.
Collab Fund • Quiet Compounding
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
3 Ways to Make the Most of Uncertain Times
Losing a job, taking on a new challenge, preparing to launch a project, moving to a new country – these transitions create what anthropologists call “liminal spaces” – the fertile but uncomfortable in-betweens where transformation happens.
Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, “threshold”) is the ambiguity
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