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We only get value from finishing projects, and getting a project over the finish line is the magical moment it goes from risk to leverage. Time spent getting work finished is always time well spent.
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
Growing up, I thought making $100,000 a year made someone rich. When I made that amount for the first time at 27, I felt like I had more than I could ever need. Yet I opted into an identity that didn’t accept such complacency. Everyone around me was always moving forward towards the next achievement.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
“Oh, you hate your job? Oh my God, why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY. They meet at the bar.” Drew Carey
David Brownfield
Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. You can take that as an absolute. As German mystic-philosopher Meister Eckhart said, the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
“You can attract luck simply by sharing your work publicly.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On Attracting Luck, Taking Risks, and the Ineffectiveness of Anger | James Clear
“Contrary to popular belief, time does not heal, time does not fly, time does not do anything. Time has no consciousness. It does nothing for you. The key to happiness now is what you choose to do with your time right now. Are you, right now, making the most valuable use of your time? This moment is, after all, the time of your life. Your choices... See more
the problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Before they began, the group codified a set of organizing principles, dubbed the “Pirate Paradigm,” that would dictate how they worked together:
- Don’t wait to be told to do something; figure it out for yourself
- Challenge everything, and steel yourself for the inevitable cynicism, opposition, rumors, false reporting, innuendos, and slander
- Break the
How NASA's Pirate Paradigm Challenged The Status Quo — NOBL
NASA Pirate Paradigm
I developed the governing impression that our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability.