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Our troubled relationship with time arises largely from this same effort to avoid the painful constraints of reality.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Messy perfectionists are in love with starting. Unlike their procrastinator perfectionist counterparts, nothing brings a messy perfectionist more joy than beginnings. Messy perfectionists are optimistic and “start happy,” but they struggle to maintain momentum unless the remainder of the process feels as exciting and as energizing (i.e., as perfect) as it did in the beginning. Since that never happens, messy perfectionists who haven’t yet learned how to use their perfectionism to their advantage take on a million and seven projects only to abandon them all.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
The idea that you should automate things as soon as you do them twice and script them if you do them once, was new to me but changed how I approached work.
17 Things I Wish I’d Done Earlier as a Data Engineer
Sven Balnojan
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