Category: Links of Interest
Pair Hard Work With Corrective Action to Win
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Chase Parnell reminds us to pair effort with analysis of how things could be done better next time. Now sure, working hard is admirable, but there are a lot of people out there that work their ass off but never progress to the next level because they don’t take that critical next step of pairing…
Does Your Work Show Your Values?
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From Derek Sivers: Once you realize that one value is more important to you than another, you have to ask yourself if you’re living accordingly A great question I’ve been asking myself lately. Is the work I’m pushing forward on conforming to the values I have? Does it allow me the time I want to…
One Action Shortcuts
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One action shortcuts from Rosemary Orchard. I can’t tell you how much Shortcuts has automated in my work…actually I can. Every time I am on macOS and don’t have Shortcuts I feel handicapped. There are a very few things that macOS is better for. Browsing CSS selectors in web developer tools being one of them.…
Passion Doesn’t Have to Be Part of the Work Equation
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From Paul Jarvis: Passion or love doesn’t have to be part of the work/job equation. The value of work is that you get paid to do it, not that you’d do it even if you didn’t get paid. It even bothers a lot of other writers that my main reason for being a writer is…
Lock-in Has Made Us Complacent in Our Purchases
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From Chris Wiegman as he talks about leaving “big tech” ecosystems. My last personal Mac was a 2016 15″ MBP with touchbar and all the other bells and whistles and it was a piece of junk for the bargain price of around $3,000. Lock-in, in my opinion, has made us complacent where we will still…
Porcelain Dolls on the Sidewalk Crying
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From You Are Awesome, which I finished this morning. Not many of us have been through famines or wars or, lets be honest, any form of true scarcity. We have it all. And the side effect is that we no longer have the tools to handle failure or even perceived failure. These days when we…
Abandon Your Email Address
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Love this idea of abandoning your old email, but I do wonder how practical it is for business people? Sure if you don’t need money, then ignore everything that comes in. Then never give this new private email to anyone except dear friends and family. Let your old Gmail collect the junk. The people you…
It’s a Good Thing That Everything Isn’t Easy
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From the upcoming book by Neil Pasricha called You Are Awesome. …the thing so often missing from the conversation around ambitions exceeding abilities is the fact that it’s a good thing. That’s what you want! Can you imagine if everything you did was easy? Page 136 Sure it may sound good on the surface to…
Playing Hooky From Commitments for Productivity
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This piece from Derek Sivers goes well with the one I just published from Justin Jackson, but back to Sivers: Some of my best, most productive, and enjoyable days have been while playing hooky. Not only is it okay to book “out of office” days to get work done like Jackson says, it’s totally fine…
Revealing Your Failures Helps Others
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From a study titled Mitigating Malicious Envy: People are reticent to reveal their failures–both as they are happening and after they have occurred. However, in two experiments, we find that revealing successes and the failures encountered on the path to success (compared to revealing only successes) decreases observers’ malicious envy. What that means is, when…