Sirnesto

@sirnesto

Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.

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“You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”

– Ram Dass

Tina Roth Eisenberg • Part of The Dance

“Douglas firs, cedars, hemlocks, and big-leaf maples surround the house so tightly they take away the horizon. Some-times, when their crowns sway in the wind, I have the sense that I'm living at the bottom of a kelp forest. The expanse of this montane forest, like the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, is something I feel, and against this volume of

“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.

Leadership Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You're Either Lying Or Crazy.” Merlin Mann

Philosophy of PKM

If you can’t solve for the hardest part, the part with the most uncertainty, there’s no point in doing anything else.

Annie Duke • Grit or Quit? Tactical Advice for Founders Facing Tough Company Building Decisions

“The key is to maintain both in a hub-and-spoke-style arrangement: Expose yourself to ideas in hubs on a regular basis, but maintain a spoke in which to work deeply on what you encounter.” - Cal Newport

Philosophy of PKM

“Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.” Marcus Aurelius

“I'm looking back at that happy man, myself, as he stands there-soaked in summer moonlight on that Thursday night in August.

He's happy because the scene is beautiful; and because he's in love; and because his novel is finished—he only just did the very last thing, correcting the galleys-and its first readers are excited by it. His life feels good.