The work necessary to maintain peace Change Your education The education of other people, old and new Work to improve and maintain public health The… Read More »As Long As It Takes (3): Things Which By Their Nature Are Never Finished
This is not to say that you can’t or shouldn’t affect the speed at which these things happen – just that when you’ve done what… Read More »As Long As It Takes (2): Things That Take As Long As They Take (and which you can’t or don’t want to rush)
We speed addicts must crash to earth. We have to give up. You surrender to the reality that things just take the time they take,… Read More »As Long As It Takes (1): Oliver Burkeman on Patience
The core trouble in our modern relationship with time, I think – made worse by most productivity advice – is that we’ve come to see… Read More »Oliver Burkeman: “You can’t master time… but try the Pomodoro technique.”
I’ve been trying this approach – advocated by my wife but also by Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk – to managing my weeks recently, and… Read More »Themed days: Product. Management. Strategy.
The planning fallacy is that people think they can plan, ha ha. Eliezer Yodkowsky – more here How long does it take to make a… Read More »Experiencing the planning fallacy: How long does it take to make a cup of coffee?
The key resource if you’re running a business by yourself is your time. … And the key insight about time is that software lets us… Read More »Patrick McKenzie on time as asset; time as debt
I find it hard to stop things (working, reading, listening, watching, exercising) at the right time. Sometimes I’m blissfully unaware of the time passing, but… Read More »The art of stopping (in the moment)
By frivolling useful chunks of time away on things that bring neither useful results nor joy;* By believing that you can’t get anything important done… Read More »Two ways to waste time
If it matters to you, support it by showing up when it’s happening. Come – bringing a good version of yourself* – whether you feel… Read More »Building trust by showing up