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Yet Taggart’s question remained a daily companion: “If work dominated your every moment, would life be worth living?”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
want to be told what to do and how to do it, without ever understanding why. They want quick steps to easy living. Life is not like that. It is variable. It changes whether we plan for it or not. Our systems need to be flexible to adapt to this variation.
Tonianne DeMaria Barry • Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life
Organizations often fall prey to the dangerous fallacy that freedom and structure represent opposing forces and that more of one means less of the other.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Reshuffle: Who wins when AI restacks the knowledge economy

maintain a healthy sense of perspective
Cal Newport • How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
The inhabitant of the city is in touch with thousands of systems, but only peripherally with each. He knows how to operate the TV or the telephone, but their workings are hidden from him. Learning by primary experience is restricted to self-adjustment in the midst of packaged commodities. He feels less and less secure in doing his own thing.
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by Ian McGilchrist:
“McGilchrist’s nuanced view of the brain’s hemispheric tensions made me reconsider how cultural biases toward hyper-specialized, analytical thinking subtly distort our collective decision-making. His argument—that precision disconnected from broader context can lead us astray—sharpened the awareness of... See more
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Here’s Kreider’s explanation: Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets … it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.