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📚 Finished reading Essentialism by Greg McKeown
I read Essentialism 5 years ago, and I just finished reading it again. It has super helpful advice for how to prioritize things at work and in your personal life. 5/5 ⭐️
Here’s one of my favorite quotes from the book:
But in fact we can easily do two things at the same time: wash the dishes and listen to the radio, eat and talk, clear the clutter on our desk while thinking about where to go for lunch, text message while watching television, and so on.
What we can’t do is concentrate on two things at the same time.
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Can Directories Rise Again? from The History of the Web:
Search has bent in quality towards its earliest days, difficult to navigate and often unhelpful. And the remedy may be the same as it was a quarter century ago. It may be once again time for the surfers. Only different this time.
The only resistance to the current advance of AI is humanity. We are relearning that humans can see through the bullshit. There are examples everywhere.
A lot of personal bloggers already have slash pages, which are like personal directories. Makes sense to have old-school directories where a community contributes.
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Asking questions isn’t being difficult. It’s being curious. It’s trying to understand the rationale behind actions and beliefs. But for some people in power—whether that’s a boss, a self-styled authority figure, even a Partner—questions are dangerous. Questions suggest that maybe they don’t have all the answers, that maybe their decisions aren’t flawless, and that maybe, just maybe, there’s a better way of doing things.
— You’re Only “Difficult” to People Who Don’t Want to Be Questioned by Joan Westenberg