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“Like planting a seed in nutrient-rich soil, and feeding it the water and sunlight it needs in order to grow, today’s productivity is about creating the conditions within your mind to have valuable thoughts. Being productive today isn’t about time management, it’s about mind management.” (David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management)
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“The first approach is to eliminate complexity by making code simpler and more obvious.” (John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design)
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“Embrace the parts of you that others call weird. Don’t hide what makes you different. Allow those parts to float to the top and be seen by all. Your uniqueness is what makes your creations original, effective, and memorable.” (Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity)
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“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. —Bishop Desmond Tutu” (Peter Attia MD, Outlive)
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“And if the robots don’t rise up, if our creations don’t come to life and take the power we have used so badly for so long away from us, who will? What we fear isn’t that AI will destroy us—we fear it won’t. We fear we will continue to degrade life on this planet until we destroy ourselves.” (Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea)
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“Ultimately, that is all ChatGPT does technically—act as a very elaborate autocomplete like you have on your phone. You give it some initial text, and it keeps writing text based on what it statistically calculates as the most likely next token in the sequence. If you type “Finish this sentence: I think, therefore I . . . ,” the AI will predict the next word will be am every time, because it is incredibly probable that this is the case.” (Ethan Mollick, Co-Intelligence)
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“In the space between stimulus and response, one of two things can happen. You can consciously pause and apply reason to the situation. Or you can cede control and execute a default behavior.” (Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking)
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“Externalizing your thoughts through writing will both challenge and reinforce your beliefs.” (Bob Doto, A System for Writing)
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“Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket. That is to say: think of your backlog not as a container that gradually fills up, and that it’s your job to empty, but as a stream that flows past you, from which you get to pick a few choice items, here and there, without feeling guilty for letting all the others float by.” (Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals)
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“You shouldn’t just envy the craftsman mindset, you should emulate it. In other words, I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus toward becoming so good they can’t ignore you. That is, regardless of what you do for a living, approach your work like a true performer.” (Cal Newport, So Good They Can’t Ignore You)
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“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and-if you’re not careful-those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.” (Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker)
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“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” (Peter Voogd, 6 Months to 6 Figures)
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“Loading everyone to 100% of capacity has the same effect as loading a highway to 100% of capacity: No one can make any progress.” (Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning)
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“Named after the economist Charles Goodhart, the principle states, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”” (James Clear, Atomic Habits)
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“The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That’s because they are reductions of what they represent. If a map were to represent the territory with perfect fidelity, it would no longer be a reduction and thus would no longer be useful to us.” (Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien, The Great Mental Models)
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“Life is the sum of what you focus on. Living the focused life is not about constant happiness, but about being mindful of what you allow in your mind, akin to tending a private garden. Your experience of the world is shaped by what you pay attention to.” (Deep Questions with Cal Newport, Ep. 311: Finding Focus in Distracting Times)
