Marty Bell
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Marty Bell
It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (“Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” reads the... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“A developed country is not one where the poor own cars, but one where the rich use public transportation.” — Gustavo Pedro
To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
As a lower bound, you have to like your work more than any unproductive pleasure. You have to like what you do enough that the concept of "spare time" seems mistaken. Which is not to say you have to spend all your time working. You can only work so much before you get tired and start to screw up. Then you want to do something else—even something... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
the real competitive advantage in life is internal approval. you cannot compete with someone who is secure with who they are, what they want, and what they bring
Nixtwitter.comMaking internet hang out spaces shouldn't require scribes or high priests — & it definitely shouldn't req. mathematical prowess and/or a seed round
XHtwitter.com“How we perceive our world is determined by the distinctions we make. Instead of separating work from life, it would make more sense to distinguish relaxing from stressful, pleasant from unpleasant, encouraging from discouraging, and healing from destructive. This would radically alter our perspective. These are the things we should achieve balance
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