Doing important work
Exploring purpose and impact with how most of society spends time.
Doing important work
how fast you learn is a lot more important than how much you know to begin with. So in general I say that people emphasize too much how much they know and not how fast they're learning.
Professor John Ousterhout • slope_vs_starting.md
01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140
“Money in a business is like gas in your car. You don’t want to run out, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”– Tim O’Reilly
From age 20-50, I can't stress this enough: https://t.co/l6dcTVpsTD
The Secret
Allow yourself to go down rabbit holes
A rabbit hole is not a distraction. A rabbit hole is your brain trying to tell you to pay attention to something you’re curious about. Ignore algorithmic rabbit holes.
If you see something, save something
Pay attention to what feels resonant to you. Save breadcrumbs and build a path for yourself to... See more
Allow yourself to go down rabbit holes
A rabbit hole is not a distraction. A rabbit hole is your brain trying to tell you to pay attention to something you’re curious about. Ignore algorithmic rabbit holes.
If you see something, save something
Pay attention to what feels resonant to you. Save breadcrumbs and build a path for yourself to... See more
Are.na
from are.na
But just as many of our current software applications wouldn’t run well on MS-DOS, the new processes, techniques, or cultural changes we might try to adopt simply won’t run well on an operating system built around an older paradigm.