Keys to Longevity
One way to aim high is to try to make something that people will care about in a hundred years. Not because their opinions matter more than your contemporaries', but because something that still seems good in a hundred years is more likely to be genuinely good.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
what we really need—more so than righteous disdain or brash new policy—is a slower conception of what it even means to be productive in the first place.