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The sugar high of convenience is fleeting and the sting of missing out dulls rapidly, but the meaningful glow that comes from taking charge of what claims your time and attention is something that persists.
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
Strategies are techniques used by the powerful. These are the techniques of top-down power and lording over others. Invade, defeat, dominate, expand. Rinse and repeat. Strategies are the techniques of empire. Strategies are the techniques of harpagmon and the Lucifer effect. Strategies are what Satan offered to Jesus on the mountain. The powerful rule the world, Jesus said, by lording over and exercising authority over others. Tactics, by contrast, are the techniques of the weak. Lacking power and therefore unable to dominate, control, or force things, the weak must resort to the techniques of subversion, sabotage, and guerilla warfare. If strategies are exercises in top-down power, tactics emerge from the bottom up. Further, the weak are always operating in enemy territory. Consequently, the weak have to be opportunistic and experts of improvisation.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
Treat curiosity and wonder as a guide to the future.
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