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It’s not about working less. It’s the opposite: A lot of thought jobs basically never stop, and without structuring time to think and be curious, you wind up less efficient during the hours that are devoted to sitting at your desk cranking out work. This is the opposite of the concept of “hustle porn,” where people want to look busy at all times because they think it’s noble.
Everything worth pursuing comes with a little pain. The trick is not minding that it hurts.
If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way.
If you can get your work life to where you enjoy half of it, that is amazing. Very few people ever achieve that.
A simple rule that’s obvious but easy to ignore is that nothing worth pursuing is free. How could it be otherwise? Everything has a price, and the price is usually proportionate to the potential rewards.
It always feels like we’re falling behind, and it’s easy to discount the potential of new technology.
The value of every new technology is not just what it can do; it’s what someone else with a totally different skill set and point of view can eventually manipulate it into.
“The grass is always greener on the side that’s fertilized with bullshit.”
There’s a saying—I don’t know whose—that an expert is always from out of town.
Good advice that took me awhile to learn is that everything is sales.
When the incentives are crazy, the behavior is crazy.
Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal says there are three ways to be a professional writer: 1. Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich. 2. Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living. 3. Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.
The more flexibility you have, the less you need to know what happens next.
The sore truth is that complexity sells better.
The funny thing is the average reader does not come close to finishing most books they buy. Even among bestsellers, average readers quit after a few dozen pages.
Wounds heal, but scars last.
