Glenn Dietz
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Glenn Dietz
A Delancey Street townhouse filled with 100,000 books is a bibliophile’s dream — and an epic estate sale
inquirer.com
She thumbed a few pieces back to reveal a framed quote from writer Amy Lowell’s poem “The Boston Athenaeum.”
“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past,” it read. “The reason why men lived, and worked, and died. The essence and quintessence of their lives.”
“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past,” it read. “The reason why men lived, and worked, and died. The essence and quintessence of their lives.”
To understand a man, you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty, Napoleon is supposed to have said. The quotation is probably apocryphal, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true.
X. It’s what’s happening
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daily.dev | Where developers suffer together
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Stop treating knowledge work as manual work. Instead of measuring success by irrelevant or arbitrary metrics, ask yourself, Did I contribute today?
Did you advance the conversation? Did you solve a problem? Did you come up with a good idea? Did you help a colleague or a client?
Did you advance the conversation? Did you solve a problem? Did you come up with a good idea? Did you help a colleague or a client?