Supritha S

The good news is that peaceful productivity is possible, but it looks a lot different from the manic busyness we often celebrate in productivity culture. Here are some simple steps you can take today to elevate your productivity without sacrificing your peace.

This is a very human impulse, I think — to assign culprits to things that go wrong. When the economy is sluggish, it’s always due to bad policies and the bad people who make them, rather than hideously complex market interactions that even economists don’t understand.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…

“Polymathy is the optimal path to creativity because, by its very nature, it requires you to be diverse in your experience and your learning”.

Renunciation is one of ten trainable qualities known traditionally as the paramis (the others being generosity, resolve, patience, morality, effort, insight, loving-kindness, equanimity and truthfulness).

Quotes from Marcus Aurelius

As engineering has improved and knock-offs have increased, though, the two-hundred-year tradition of physical luxury goods is fading away.

I think the most useful idea in this third variation is the notion of evaluating projects according to ‘activation energy’. The more built-out the project is, the more the activation energy cost has been paid, and the easier it is to work on. And so you can evaluate projects based on how far they’ve come from zero: