Renee De Four

It’s not that sexy new PM tool. That’s a shiny object, distracting you from the real problem.

It starts with process and people, and you support that with tools. The simpler, the better.

So let’s generalize this and say that retirement without doing what excites you is not a good retirement. What we actually need to understand here is the different perceptions of retirement: To some retirement means sitting in Florida and staring at a wall, to others it’s hang gliding in Tahiti, and to some it simply means not having to work.

We are looking for what is timeless, what is quietly profound.

Outliner means that every single piece of text you jot down is a bullet point that can be collapsed.

Cut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly… No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

— Pat Barker