Caroline Mays
@illemonati
Caroline Mays
"Focus on your likes, not your wants.
Wanting is the desire you feel before doing something. Liking is the satisfaction you feel after... See more
- You may not want to exercise, but you like how it makes you feel.
- You may not want to write, but you like the feeling of accomplishment.
- You may not want to wake up early, but you like the calm beauty of morning.
Wanting is the desire you feel before doing something. Liking is the satisfaction you feel after... See more
3-2-1: On the power of going for it, the value of sharing what you know, and how to figure out what you really want
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
5-Bullet Friday — The Odd Benefits of Donating Blood, My HBS Case Study, A Tool for Using Miles and Points, The Proust Questionnaire, and More
Pretending/posturing
Entrepreneur Will Ahmed on living a well-rounded life:
"Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home."
"Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home."
3-2-1: On living a well-rounded life, managing risks, and enjoying the worst-case scenario
Every normal working day, my intention is:
• to spend three hours on my most important current project, having defined some kind of specific goal for the progress I aim to make on it that day;
• to complete three shorter tasks, usually urgent to-dos or "sticky" tasks I've been avoiding, usually just a few minutes each (I count calls and meetings here, too); and
• to dedicate time to three 'maintenance activities', things that need my daily attention in order to keep life running smoothly.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
— Annie Dillard, ’The Writing Life’, 1989
The programmer Simon Willison has described the training for large language models as “money laundering for copyrighted data,” which I find a useful way to think about the appeal of generative-A.I. programs: they let you engage in something like plagiarism, but there’s no guilt associated with it because it’s not clear even to you that you’re... See more
When the person you could have been meets the person you are becoming, is it going to be a cause for celebration or heartbreak?
This is something we must work on right now, and tomorrow, and every single day until the meeting happens.
This is something we must work on right now, and tomorrow, and every single day until the meeting happens.
Seth Godin • The inevitable meeting
Seth Godin Quote