Ways of Working
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Ways of Working
Sylvester McNutt III urges us to stop overthinking:
“Overthinking is the biggest waste of human energy. Trust yourself, make a decision, and gain more experience. There is no such thing as perfect. You cannot think your way into perfection, just take action.”
From FS newsletter.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
— Annie Dillard, ’The Writing Life’, 1989
Here are some quick tips for boosting how you approach being productive:
📌 Make the workplace a nice place to be. No one is productive in a grotty environment with mean, micro-managing bosses.
📌 Give people the tools they need to do their jobs and train them how to use them.
📌 Set priorities across the organization or team.
📌 Make sure there is goo... See more
📌 Make the workplace a nice place to be. No one is productive in a grotty environment with mean, micro-managing bosses.
📌 Give people the tools they need to do their jobs and train them how to use them.
📌 Set priorities across the organization or team.
📌 Make sure there is goo... See more
Elizabeth Harrin
Harry Dry’s Rules for Copywriting
formatting and terminology corrected by me for consistency and because I could not help myself. Originally captured from this podcast episode.
1. A great sentence is a good sentence made shorter.
2. Writing great copy begins with having something to say in the first place.
3. Copy is like food: how it looks matters.
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Screens are attention, and thus metabolic energy and brain function vampires!
Do NOT raise your kid with tech. Do NOT look at your phone all day. Do raise your child in an attentive, prosocial environment. Do make them play outside. Do engage with people directly and actively as much as possible. Do. One. Thing. At. A. Time.
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