Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Choose quality over quantity. Don’t always feel there is a need to fill every moment with communication.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
quandary.
Exurb1a • The Fifth Science
“Backburner Items”—stuff that isn’t actionable yet but may be someday (and is worthy of revisiting periodically).
Scott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
add small frictions that cause pause
Stephen Wendel • Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics
What makes work good is time to read, think, slow down, and create a rich inner life. In other words, good work comes from slowing the fuck down and trusting that good ideas will come through if we give ourselves enough time and space to see them.
Or take Maria Popova, who has been writing weekly essays about literature, art, and philosophy for her blog The Marginalian for about two decades.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
These are answers that must be fished from the depths. And what is fishing but slowing down?