Rule #4 is entitled Think Small, Act Big. It’s in this understanding of career capital and its role in mission that we get our explanation for this title. Advancing to the cutting edge in a field is a...
Is Silicon Valley programming apps or are they programming people? Cooper asks. They are programming people,
To your work, then he will close the deal. To
Running is cheaper than therapy.
The Innovators, Isaacson later
Stephenson wrote an essay titled Why I Am a Bad Correspondent. At the core of his explanation for his inaccessibility is the following decision: The productivity equation is a non-linear one, in other...
Pushing past what is comfortable, however is only one part of the deliberate-practice story; the other part is embracing honest feedback — even if it destroys what you thought was good.
A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous,
This ritual should ensure that every incomplete task, goal, or project has been reviewed and that for each you have confirmed that either (1) you have a plan you trust for its completion, or (2) it’s...
You have to get good before you can expect good work. As
Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed. Let’s
To be great at something is to be well myelinated.
Second, even when you retreat to a spoke to think deeply, when it’s reasonable to leverage the whiteboard effect, do so.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I felt like I was stretching to convince the world that my work was interesting, yet no one cared.
A clean break is best. In
You might institute a ban on any Internet use, or maintain a metric such as words produced per twenty-minute interval to keep your concentration honed. Without this structure, you’ll have to mentally...
Network tools are distracting us from work that requires unbroken concentration, while simultaneously degrading our capacity to remain focused.
Minimalists don’t mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.
Law of productivity:High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)