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Sometimes we’d rather be doing anything other than working. But these hours are a major social opportunity. Many of the happiest men and women in the Harvard Study had positive relationships with their work and their workmates, whether they were selling tires or teaching kindergarten or performing surgery, and they were able to balance (often after much difficulty and negotiation) their work lives with their home lives. They understood it was all of a piece.
The Good Life
Robert J. Waldinger and Marc Schulz Ph.D
You don’t actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.
Getting Things Done
David Allen
This atmosphere allowed ideas to prosper; if Silicon Valley is about anything, it's about the primacy of the idea. Breakthrough ideas have traditionally been difficult to manage for two reasons: 1) innovative ideas fail far more than they succeed, and 2) innovative ideas are always controversial before they succeed. If everyone could instantly understand them, they wouldn't be innovative.
What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz
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