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The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
John Maeda • 3 highlights
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Developing skills that are as good as your taste comes down to habits. The ability to “fight your way through” as Glass says, hinges on your consistency to show up and do the work. Can you build the habits required to make small improvements day after day?
jamesclear.com • Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, but Never Says
Remarkably very little overlap between the influencers talking about personal knowledge management and people that have written a great book or won an Emmy or an Oscar or actually done anything that incredible with their knowledge management systems.
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topic,” creative achievers tend to have broad interests. “This breadth often supports insights that cannot be attributed to domain-specific expertise alone.”
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
If you know what you want to do and you do it, that’s the work of a craftsman. If you begin with a question and use it to guide an adventure of discovery, that’s the work of the artist. The surprises along the way can expand your work, and even the art form itself.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
What if you read the few great books deeply instead of briefly skimming all the new books? Your shelves might be emptier, but your brain and your life would be fuller.