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Here’s what has worked for me over the years to stave off boreout :
- Leaning into digressions: Passion projects (like this very one) and side hustles, whether they’re directly related to your work or completely unrelated, create the crackle of energy that boreout can stamp out; rather than be afraid of these things taking time away from your team’s
The OffBeat #60: Boreout vs. Burnout
“At a certain point, we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by... See more
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything
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One thing I didn’t realize until later in life is how the incentives of an industry shape your mood, your outlook, and even your character. In early stage investing, the incentives reward optimists, so it literally pays to keep an optimistic outlook. In journalism, the opposite is true. In law, the incentives often reward finding the flaw or the... See more
Katherine Boylex.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
🌎 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.
Shreyas Hariharan • The Goal is Resonance | Shreyas Hariharan
Likability is evaluated before confidence.
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People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander