Laurence Chen
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Laurence Chen
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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.
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.
If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook
If you do everything I ask, you get a C.
If you want a better grade, do more.
–Hilary’s Teacher
“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
―Miles Davis
“A tiny acorn grows into a magnificent oak tree, and it never goes: ‘I have to improve myself.’”
Discover, not improve
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.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
The game dialectic is electric!
Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Tony Robbins • MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
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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