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the brevity of life to be the defining problem of human existence: we’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- Reaching wide audiences requires all-terrain language, and the urgency of the present moment, amplified by chronological feeds, doesn’t allow for much stylistic variety. Efficiency is key — compressing as much information as possible to the least amount of words is the ideal of all communication.
While I do agree that many areas of interaction, like... See more - Words are a lossy medium for describing rich, multidimensional ideas.
from Building a 21st century interface for science by Oliver Hunt
- Danny Meyer the restaurateur has called ABCD: “always be collecting dots, so that you can always be connecting dots.” Dots or breadcrumbs, if your whole life is oriented around that collection, which mine is, then you're always preparing.
from A Compulsive Search for the Most Interesting People with Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Compound Manual by Frederik Gieschen
- We live in a world of widening emotional inequality. The top 20 percent of the world is experiencing highest level of happiness and well-being since Gallup began measuring these things. The bottom 20 percent is experiencing the worst. It’s a fundamentally unjust and unstable situation. The emotional health of the world is shattering.
from Opinion | The Rising Tide of Global Sadness by New York Times
- "Predicting rain doesn’t count, building the ark does.”
- Warren Buffett - All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push... See more
from 3-2-1: The simple way to have a good day, why inspiration is unnecessary, playing small vs playing big
- I’d like to keep my family together and raise my boys into adults who are “publicly useful and privately happy.” Anything else is gravy.
something that we own and get to control seems to make life worse. Inevitably, we become obsessed with “using it well,” whereupon we discover an unfortunate truth: the more you focus on using time well, the more each day begins to feel like something you have to get through, en route to some calmer, better, more fulfilling point in the future, whic
... See morefrom Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman