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Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Give the #1 bestseller to everyone you love this Christmas
The worst mistakes in life are made when you try to do fast what’s meant to be done slow. Real, durable things take a long time to build. Careers. Businesses. Relationships. Health. There are no hacks or shortcuts. The long way is the right way.
The Law of Reversed Effort: Slow Down to Speed Up | The Curiosity Chronicle
“How do you develop a novel technology intended to better the world when the world itself is changing faster than you can keep up? By the time you’re ready to deploy your invention, the environment in which you tested it may no longer exist. At this stage in history, the most important variable in any effort to counteract global warming — whether
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy; the chance to draw back; always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elemental truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one commits oneself, Providence moves all. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never
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If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
We are creatures shaped by the planet's rocky logic. Each of us is, most fundamentally, an Earthling. On the beach, pebbles of Ordovician dolomite prattle with Archean granite, their combined memories spanning half the age of the Earth.
Marcia Bjornerud
