Things that made me stop and think
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander
The One Thing Quotes by Gary Keller
Your brand is a collection of all the ideas you care about, in your own words, under one account on the internet.
If you have multiple interests, do not waste the next 2-3 years
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
In real life, the success or failure of each individual performance often plays out in the form of concrete, physical action—you get invited over for dinner, or you lose the friendship, or you get the job. Online, performance is mostly arrested in the nebulous realm of sentiment, through an unbroken stream of hearts and likes and eyeballs,
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getpocket.comWork, 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