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A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver
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Bill Wurtz on HTML Energy
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If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one?
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
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Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.
—Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
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Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
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The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing a book by ...
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Alice Phoebe Lou - Paper Castles - a documentary
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So what’s the smallest way to have that kind of experience?
Matt Webb • Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
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Matt Webb asks in Protocols, Desire, and Belief in the context of creating belief and desire as illustrated by Stripes insanely simple “seven lines of code” to integrate