Things that made me stop and think
For care, though, it doesn’t get bigger and better. If your goal is to educate the world, you can look for ways to educate thousands or millions. If you want to inspire the world, the billions await. But if your goal is to care for the world, and in a given moment you’re deeply caring for one person, you’re doing the best it’s possible to do.
stevenscrawls.com • Care Doesn’t Scale
Looking closely is valuable at every scale. From looking closely at a sentence, a photograph, a building, a government. It scales and it cascades — one cognizant detail begets another and then another. Suddenly you’ve traveled very far from that first little: Huh.
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh... See more
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh... See more
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
Taste is not the same as correctness, though. To do something correctly is not necessarily to do it tastefully. For most things, correctness is good enough, so we skate by on that as the default. And there are many correct paths to take. You’ll be able to cook a yummy meal, enjoy the movie, build a useable product, don a shirt that fits. But taste... See more
"If you feel resistance before you begin, it's usually procrastination and you need to get started.
If you feel resistance after you begin, it's usually feedback and you need to make adjustments."
-@JamesClear
If you feel resistance after you begin, it's usually feedback and you need to make adjustments."
-@JamesClear
Harpreet Singh Rai • X. It’s what’s happening
You don’t want your response rate be at 100% , because then you’re not pushing far enough — you could probably ask for more assistance and still get it. “My goal is roughly an 80% hit rate for outreach,” says Fralic. “For others in different roles it might be lower (if you’re a sales development rep for instance) or maybe 50%. There’s no magic... See more
jacqui@thriveglobal.com • How to Become Insanely Well-Connected - Thrive Global
Work, oddly, has become a kind of shelter and a source of autonomy in a moment where control feels like a myth from the past. It has helped me focus and through it, given me something real to hold onto when the world feels ungraspable. No, we aren’t going to fix the world through the accounting work we do, but maybe we can hold one small piece of... See more
🌎 When the world feels like it’s unraveling
When two people work on a shared project – a joke, a product, an essay, a story – and are able to understand and build on each other, that’s the peak of the human condition.