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The more you hurry, the more frustrating it is to encounter tasks (or toddlers) that won’t be hurried; the more compulsively you plan for the future, the more anxious you feel about any remaining uncertainties, of which there will always be plenty.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
What’s odd about you is what’s interesting. Work hard, and you can write like everyone else in your genre—but the result will never be as rich as the texture of your own personality. So don’t think too much about how it’s supposed to be done, what others are doing, or what the conventions demand. Just try to amuse yourself.
Advice for a Friend Who Wants to Start a Blog
Henrik Karlsson
Most people have seen enough of these short-term debt cycles—popularly known as “the business cycle”—to know what they are like, to such an extent that they mistakenly think they will go on working this way forever. I distinguish them from the long-term debt cycle, which typically plays out over 50 to 75 years (and so contains about six to 10 short-term debt cycles).4 Because the crises that occur as these long-term debt cycles play out happen only once in a lifetime, most people don’t expect them.
Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
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