The Law of Remarkability For a mission-driven project to succeed, it should be remarkable in two different ways. First, it must compel people who encounter it to remark about it to others. Second, it...
The Great Restructuring, unlike the postwar period, is a particularly good time to have access to capital.
The 4DX framework is based on the fundamental premise that execution is more difficult than strategizing.
Stop focusing on these little details, it told me. Focus instead on becoming better.
Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work.
So we have scales that allow us to divide up people into people who multitask all the time and people who rarely do, and the differences are remarkable. People who multitask all the time can’t filter...
Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend to not create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate. In an age of n...
My professional situation now couldn’t be more perfect, Scott reports. I chose to pursue the career I knew in my heart I was passionate about: politics…. I love my office, my friends… even my boss. Th...
Managing computer systems might not generate the daily bliss that defined Thomas’s old daydreams, but as he now recognized, nothing would. A fulfilling working life is a more subtle experience than hi...
Little Bets, and it was written by a former venture capitalist named Peter Sims.2 When Sims studied a variety of successful innovators, from Steve Jobs to Chris Rock to Frank Gehry, as well as innovat...
Let’s pull together the threads spun so far: Current economic thinking, as I’ve surveyed, argues that the unprecedented growth and impact of technology are creating a massive restructuring of our econ...
Laura also connects efforts to be a conscientious consumer with issues relating to social justice, which also play a big role in the Mennonite Church.
Knuth goes on to acknowledge that he doesn’t intend to cut himself off completely from the world. He notes that writing his books requires communication with thousands of people and that he wants to b...
Kethledge, it turned out, relies on long periods alone with his thoughts to write his famously sharp legal opinions, often working at a simple pine desk in a barely renovated barn with no internet con...
It was tentativeness, not boldness, that transformed Pardis’s general mission into a specific success.
It was sometime after this realization that Shankman signed a book contract that gave him only two weeks to finish the entire manuscript. Meeting this deadline would require incredible concentration....
In a post-Enlightenment world we have tasked ourselves to identify what’s meaningful and what’s not, an exercise that can seem arbitrary and induce a creeping nihilism.
If you’re struggling to raise money for an idea, or are thinking that you will support your idea with unrelated work, then you need to rethink the idea.
If your goal is to love what you do, I discovered, follow you passion can be bad advice. It’s more important to become good at something rare and valuable, and then invest the career capital this gene...
If you go after more control in your working life without a rare and valuable skill to offer in return, you’re likely pursuing a mirage.