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- “Perspective has an expiration date, no matter how hard you try to hold on to it.”
from Running a Fine Dining Restaurant in a Recession
- Mastery, Robert said, requires boredom and tedium. It requires doing the same mundane things over and over and over. It requires sitting with the frustration of putting in work that doesn’t immediately pay off.
from SIX at 6: Mundane Excellence, Comfortable Torture, a Dividing Line, the Reality of Creativity, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, and Paul Graham by Billy Oppenheimer
- Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes—with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Su... See more
from Travelogue: Central & Eastern Europe by Trung Phan
- Almost every social network of note had an early signature proof of work hurdle. For Facebook it was posting some witty text-based status update. For Instagram, it was posting an interesting square photo. For Vine, an entertaining 6-second video. For Twitter, it was writing an amusing bit of text of 140 characters or fewer. Pinterest? Pinning a com... See more
from Daily Review | Readwise by Seth Godin
- Maybe that’s what other people who played and loved a sport feel like when they watch the pros: it’s like regaining access to a well of old joy
from Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders' by Anne Helen Petersen
Another way to improve cycle time is to make decisions more durable so the cycle doesn’t have to repeat later. One way we have found to do that is make decisions on demos and prototypes rather than docs and decks.
from Cycle Time by Andrew Bosworth
- Your life is, in some sense, a series of definitions of success.
from Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition — LessWrong by Elizabeth
If you want to live an asymmetric life: Do hard things. Do your thing. Do it for decades. Write your story. ”
from How to Live an Asymmetric Life by Graham Weaver
- “Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
from 3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope by James Clear