garden eel

there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.

not to be super intense but life takes very active maintenance and disciple. it takes discipline, it takes waking up early, fitting your friends AND your work, it takes going on that walk instead of doom scrolling, it takes researching the best coffees and getting them, it takes so much work, otherwise before you know it youre older than you realiz... See more

Some questions that I’ve found to be very effective in one-on-ones: If we could improve in any way, how would we do it? What’s the number-one problem with our organization? Why? What’s not fun about working here? Who is really kicking ass in the company? Whom do you admire? If you were me, what changes would you make? What don’t you like about the

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“I know a lot of people who make things who don’t stand proudly by their stuff,” Tyler says. “I don’t know if they’re too cool or they don’t want to look thirsty, but they’ll put a song out once on their stories — and that’s it.

"You went through something. You figured something out in a structured format. You recorded it. Not just one take. Parts

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