The Long Run
on building a new world, slowly with intention
The Long Run
I have come to the conclusion that whatever lies in the future, stays in the future.
Lee A Smart • Be Successful Now
“Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things y... See more
The Road to Self-Renewal
David Lynch lashes out at crew for not letting him go dreamy
youtube.comJim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
“Later that same week, I chatted about this in a coaching session with Kristine Claghorn. I asked her, “Now that I am wiser and I know what happens when I burn out, how do I find joy in my work again?” And she asked me a question that changed my perspective instantly: “What would happen if you took the pressure off? What would work feel like then?”
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If you’ve never read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, it’ll change you https://t.co/28kz05eEAU
If you’re thinking about an idea that you can solve in your lifetime, you’re thinking too small. - Wes Jackson
But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more