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- What I give a fuck about: Equipping people with the skills they need to break out of survival mode & THRIVE with a passion, fervour & commitment that defies reason (AKA, everything that came before).
- Rockefeller’s job wasn’t to drill wells, load trains, or move barrels. It was to make good decisions. And making decisions requires, more than anything, quiet time alone in your own head to think a problem through. Rockefeller’s product – his deliverable – wasn’t what he did with this hands, or even his words. It was what he figured out inside his ... See more
from Lazy Work, Good Work
Here’s a problem we don’t think about enough: Even as more professions look like Rockefeller’s – thought jobs that require quiet time to think a problem through – we’re stuck in the old world where a good employee is expected to labor, visibly and without interruption.
- My rule is to try something new every time
from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
- What would it be like to run your life at the speed of your own soul, instead of always feeling like you need to speed up or slow down to match someone else?
A wise old owl lived in an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke, the more he heard,
Why aren’t we all like that old bird?from Lazy Work, Good Work
- one, criticizing someone is easy; two, creating something original is very hard; three, but somebody’s got to do it.
from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
- This contemplation and collaboration was an incredibly new extension of how I’ve been thinking about work lately. It probably exists in the space my friend Yatú would call “concept composing”. Really working through the forms of language and articulation to reach a shared embodiment.
I’ve been meditating on simplicity a lot. The good life feels lik... See morefrom Architecture Work: Gloria in the Wilderness by Reggie James
- Even in the whorl of our own personal tragedies, when the cosmos appears at its most chaotic and impartial, I have come to see the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning.
from Subscribe to The Red Hand Files by NICK CAVE