This Year, Resolve to Do Less
https://forge.medium.com/this-year-resolve-to-do-less-94acf9fb3f90
We all want to believe that we’ve really turned a corner, that the whole sordid affair that was 2020 is over and we can get back to …
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Why Republicans Must Stop Trump
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2021/01/05/arnold-schwarzenegger-on-why-republicans-must-stop-trump
When I was born in 1947, two years after the second world war ended, Austria was in the …
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
When you’re operating on the manager’s schedule you can do something you’d never want to do on the maker’s: you can have …
20 Striking Findings From 2020
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/12/11/20-striking-findings-from-2020/
Partisan divisions over the public health threat posed by the virus were far from the only ones when it came to …
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/pandemic-year-two/617528/
If vaccines are successfully distributed, Americans must agree to get them. As of earlier this month, 27 percent said they …
Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt
What will your life have been, in the end, but the sum total of everything you spent it focusing on? OLIVER BURKEMAN
Information is no longer scarce. But attention is. In fact, in a world where …
'Toxic Individualism': Pandemic Politics Driving Health Care Workers From Small Towns
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/28/950861977/toxic-individualism-pandemic-politics-driving-health-care-workers-from-small-tow
More than a quarter of all the public health administrators in Kansas quit, …
18 Minutes by Peter Bregman
How did the day go? What success did I experience? What challenges did I endure? 2. What did I learn today? About myself? About others? What do I plan to do—differently or the same—tomorrow? 3. Whom …
48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller
The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the …
Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The key to successful change is measuring and understanding the right things with a focus on capabilities—not on maturity.
Third, capability models focus on key outcomes and how the capabilities, or …
Amazon Isn’t Even That Convenient Anymore
https://debugger.medium.com/amazon-isnt-even-that-convenient-anymore-99811b59b885
Amazon has become retail fast food: easy, convenient, bad for you, bad for the people that work there, and bad for the …
An Oral History of the Day Everything Changed
https://www.wired.com/story/an-oral-history-of-the-day-everything-changed-coronavirus/
Douglas Brinkley: In 1929 Herbert Hoover acted like the Great Depression and the collapse of the stock markets …
Author and Illustrator Edward Carey Shares the Story Behind His Quarantine Drawings
https://texashighways.com/travel-news/author-illustrator-edward-carey-quarantine-drawings/
People keep mentioning how Shakespeare wrote King Lear while quarantined during a plague, and that we must …
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller
When you attempt to capture the highlights without burdening yourself with the tedium, the highlights lose the foundation that elevates them to the status of “highlight.” Analogies abound because a …
Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
You’re not perfect, others aren’t perfect, and sometime people get confused.
One is “cognitive reappraisal,” a fancy term for “telling yourself a different story about what is happening.”
Whiny …
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own, whose range of feeling is as vast as your own; who prefers the way the …
Brain Rules by John Medina
the brain’s appetite for energy is enormous. The brain represents only about 2 percent of most people’s body weight, yet it accounts for about 20 percent of the body’s total energy usage—about 10 …
Braving the Wilderness by Brena Brown
perspective is a function of experience.
Sometimes the most dangerous thing for kids is the silence that allows them to construct their own stories—stories that almost always cast them as alone and …
Clearbit's Approach to Management
https://blog.clearbit.com/managers-handbook-tldr/
Setting boundaries People will push and prod to discover your boundaries. Occasionally someone will push too far. When they do, you have to show a …
Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
” Seibel: Overengineering seems to be a pet peeve of yours. Zawinski: Yeah. At the end of the day, ship the fucking thing! It’s great to rewrite your code and make it cleaner and by the third …