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Work, Life, and Fun is a flywheel not a balance
Then switch your energies to whatever you were neglecting. To live this way is to replace the high-pressure quest for ‘work–life balance’ with a conscious form of imbalance, backed by your confidence that the roles in which you’re underperforming right now will get their moment in the spotlight soon.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
humans are, or ought to be, more than just their work. If you don’t diversify your life, if you put it all on work, you have just one fragile pillar to carry that heavy load of a universal purpose. Develop a few more, and a rainy day in one area of your life won’t spoil the whole parade.
-DHH
Where you get your energy is important, what kinds of problems? what segments? For Gokul it is small businesses and individuals.
Apple • Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started...
Jim Collins...shares a different approach for identifying your wheel...for larger corporations:
1. Create a list of significant replicable successes your company has achieved 2. Compile a list of failures and disappointments 3. Compare the successes to the disappointments and ask, “What do these successes and disappointments tell us about the possib... See more
1. Create a list of significant replicable successes your company has achieved 2. Compile a list of failures and disappointments 3. Compare the successes to the disappointments and ask, “What do these successes and disappointments tell us about the possib... See more