Sarah Khalid
@sarahkhalid
writer, ai/ml product builder
Sarah Khalid
sarkhalid.com
A return home is the anti-thesis to the Odyssean notion of anything heroic. We slip into the fallacies of childhood and revert back into the patterns. Albeit lovingly with the new lessons and perspectives integrated from being away. We follow what’s next based on the strings of context attained through our life choices and non-choices, leading up t... See more
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I urge you to consider radically transforming your professional life along the three principles I proposed. Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
obsessing over quality often demands that you slow down, as the focus required to get better is simply not compatible with busyness.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The general idea that quality tools can increase the quality of your work is not unique to my early academic career. Novelists find a burst of energy when they switch from a generic word processor to professional writing software like Scrivener,
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“… each square drawn represents something that he hates.”
me, eavesdropping on some art critic.
What makes Jarvis’s story so heartening is its demonstration that these benefits of “obsessing” over quality don’t necessarily require that you dedicate your entire life to the blinkered pursuit of superstardom. Jarvis didn’t sell fifteen million records; he instead became, over time, good at core skills that were both rare and valuable in the part
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artist's date edition 1: sept 28th 2024
Alex Colville, “Elm Tree at Horton Landing” (1956)
Quality demands that you slow down. Once achieved, it also helps you take control of your professional efforts, providing you the leverage needed to steer even further away from busyness.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
From that point on, not one day passed that I did not write something. On bad days, I would only type out a page or two; on good days, I would finish a chapter and then some. I mostly wrote at night, after the kids were asleep so that I could concentrate for longer than five minutes without being interrupted.