From Manufacturing Quality Time [https://m.signalvnoise.com/manufacturing-quality-time-fe043fa7b7a1#.wz9sij6hi] by Basecamp founder and Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson: > An hour haunted by stress, interruption, sleep deprivation, or frazzle is not worth the sixty minutes its allotted. It’s a low-quality hour. You’d be foolish to…
Must-read. Using Steve Jobs as an example, entrepreneur and writer Michael Simmons explains the The No. 1 Predictor Of Career Success According To Network Science [https://medium.com/life-learning/the-number-one-predictor-of-career-success-according-to-network-science#.1pam6izbs] : > According to multiple, peer-reviewed studies, simply being in an open network instead of a closed one is the…
This is an excerpt from professor and author Alan Jacobs' My Year in Tech [http://blog.ayjay.org/uncategorized/my-year-in-tech/]. In 2015, he said goodbye to his smartphone and committed everything to paper. > Writing By Hand. I have always kept a notebook around for jotting down the occasional…
From Life is Short [http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html] by Paul Graham: > The usual way to avoid being taken by surprise by something is to be consciously aware of it. Back when life was more precarious, people used to be aware of death to a degree that would…
> After speaking with our group, Branson sat on a panel with industry experts to talk about the future of business. As everyone around him was filling the air with business buzzwords and talking about complex ideas for mapping out our future, Branson was saying things like: “Screw it, just…
> “Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things,” Ms. Musk wrote. “Extreme success is different from what I suppose you could just consider ‘success.’ These people tend to be freaks and misfits who were forced to experience the world in an…
I heard from many of you last week after I announced the end of Swipe File. Enough, in fact, that I've changed my mind. Thanks for all your kind words and support. :) But Swipe File is going to be a little different now. Instead of a weekly newsletter…
"I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized: I am somebody." — Lily Tomlin Hey All, Happy New Year! I've collected a few of my favorite stories from 2015 in this issue. Even the quote is recycled, but it'…