Tejas Gawande
- Keep your Sails Up
During tough times, it is crucial to maintain a positive attitude and take actions that keep you motivated and uplifted.
Keeping your spirits high by engaging in small, positive activities like eating right, cleaning up, socializing, being kind, and generous can help navigate through challenging situations and prevent oneself from ... See moreKeep your sails up. Be ready for when the winds come
- Research as leisure activity is directed by passions and instincts . It’s fundamentally very personal: What are you interested in now ? It’s fine, and maybe even better, if the topic isn’t explicitly intellectual or academic in nature. And if one topic leads you to another topic that seems totally unrelated, that’s something to get excited about—no... See more
from research as leisure activity by Celine Nguyen
✨ Where great ideas come from
Research as leisure: A desire to ask and answer questions, a commitment to evidence, an understanding of what already exists, an output, a certain degree of contemporary relevance, and a community
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
from How to Do Great Work
- If I look at things that have turned out well in my life (my marriage, some of my essays, my current career) the “design process” has been the same in each case. It has been what Christopher Alexander called an unfolding .1 Put simply:
... See more- I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people
from Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process by Henrik Karlsson
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Recipe for doing the work you like
- If I look at things that have turned out well in my life (my marriage, some of my essays, my current career) the “design process” has been the same in each case. It has been what Christopher Alexander called an unfolding .1 Put simply:
- Design has evolved to meet the challenge of the new relationship between people and the material goods they need. Today, designers — artisans, manufacturers, engineers, architects — think far beyond the way things look. Comparing pre-industrial design to post-industrial design with a picture is absurd. Critiquing a modern object based on its appear... See more
from Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design
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Ideas evolve gradually over years and decades into their final shape. The new form has many micro decisions behind it
- Implicit in the promise of outsourcing and automation and time-saving devices is a freedom to be something other than what we ought to be. The liberation we are offered is a liberation from the very care-driven involvement in the world and in our communities that would render our lives meaningful and satisfying. In other words, the promise of liber... See more
from Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend on It by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
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Fidelity to daily tasks: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing well. With care.
- When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything wi... See more
from More People Should Write by jsomers.net
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The mind is an auto-sorting machine. It subconsciously organizes better when it knows what you’re looking for
- Read, but don’t just read. Read the best book you can find.
Write, but don’t just write. Write the best idea you can conceive.from 3-2-1: On the power of going for it, the value of sharing what you know, and how to figure out what you really want by James Clear
✨ Where great ideas come from
Commitment to the best.