Laurence Chen
Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
from MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins
- If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook
Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun or urgent or interesting part of the work.
There are countless productive shortcuts along the way. But not finishing the project isn’t one of them.from If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook
- The greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of games is that you can get sucked into this experience of just craving and wanting to be in a clear, crisp and gentle universe where you know exactly what to do and exactly how well it’s measured.
from A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life by New York Times
The game dialectic is electric!
- So if you have large-scale bureaucracies that need to be organized and function coherently, then you need these kind of simple, nuance-free packets of information. And I think that’s one of the reasons we’ve seen this constant rise of simplified metrical analysis.
from A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life by New York Times
- there’s this struggle in my head. Is the world ending, or is it a nice day and I’m getting coffee? Obviously, it’s not a binary thing, but living this way is sometimes brain-scrambling. It’s not like the constant doom and gloom of Twitter was making me a better climate activist. Instead I’d be paralyzed. Twitter incentivizes you to live in this con... See more
from How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis by The Atlantic
Yes. Regrettably, it’s also how it’s used; how one filters signal from the taxing noise. Twitter has been positive for a few, much more negative for many more. But a few figured out the compounding formula.
- Generalists have the advantage of interdisciplinary knowledge, which fosters creativity and a firmer understanding of how the world works. They have a better overall perspective and can generally perform second-order thinking in a wider range of situations than the specialist can.
from The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled by Shane Parrish
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
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