3-2-1: On muddy puddles and leaky ceilings, the secret to productivity, and how to spoil a great relationship

he realized that he’d put the cart before the horse: the legal contract work was piling up, making him miserable, and it made no sense to try to turn his brain over to a beautiful pie-in-the-sky project when this pressing work required his immediate attention. So he lowered the bar to eye level. What was going on? Why had the contract work become s

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Big and small problems are, in key ways, the same. There is a crucial yet hard-to-understand concept here. Most people grasp the need to set priorities; they put the biggest problems at the top, with smaller problems beneath them. There are simply too many small problems to consider them all. So they draw a horizontal line beneath which they will n

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Paul Graham (@paulg) on how to do great work. I used to be stuck at the third point a lot and reading this helped me immensely. https://t.co/qaZt7VsVVY