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Your ability to deal with surprise is your competitive edge, and a key to sanity and sustainability in your lifestyle. But at a certain point, if you’re not catching up and getting things under control, staying busy with only the work at hand will undermine your effectiveness. And ultimately, in order to know whether you should stop what you’re doing and do something else, you’ll need to have a good sense of all your roles and how they fit together in a larger context. The only way you can have that is to evaluate your life and work appropriately at multiple horizons.

Getting Things Done

David Allen

It starts becoming so deterministic, it stops being luck. The definition starts fading from luck to destiny. To summarize the fourth type: build your character in a certain way, then your character becomes your destiny.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss

According to Netflix co-founder Randolph, in his memoir, That Will Never Work, Hastings has the mind of a “supercomputer,” and a way of brushing aside the ideas of his associates for being “totally unsupported by reason.”28 The downside of having a mind like a computer is that he sometimes behaved like one as well. Gina Keating, a staff writer for Reuters and UPI, in her book, Netflixed, writes that some ex-Netflixers have described him as “unencumbered by emotion,” and that he has an emotional IQ of zero.29 Maureen Dowd compared Hastings to Ayn Rand in The New York Times.

Pandora's Box

Peter Biskind

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