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David Kadavy (@kadavy) is a bestselling author, blogger, podcaster, and speaker. Through his blogging at kadavy.net and his podcast, Love Your Work, he helps people find satisfaction through following their crafts, even if it takes them down unconventional paths. David's writing has appeared in Quartz, Observer, Inc.com, The Huffington Post, McSweeny’s Internet Tendency, and Upworthy. He has spoken in eight countries, including appearances at SXSW at TEDx. He lives in Medellín, Colombia. ...more

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Hours left, stretch goal reached (audiobook included!)

Just a quick post to let you know that the stretch goal has been reached for the briefly re-opened Finish What Matters Preview Edition.

This means that every Preview Edition customer will get the audiobook (when it comes out).

I’ve been making arrangements to produce a top-notch audiobook (read by me) with The Block House (Tim Ferriss, Ryan Holiday, Paul Millerd), so I’m very excited we

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“The user experience design of a product essentially lies between the intentions of the product and the characteristics of your user.”
David Kadavy, Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

“We dream of building a fortress when we should be starting with a cottage. We fool ourselves into procrastinating by exaggerating how much time we really need. We create mental blocks by imagining our work will follow a linear progression.”
David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

“The only way to become your true self is to find the art inside you and make it real. Your art is the best expression possible of who you really are. You make art when you take your passions, your interests, and even your compassion for others, and combine them to make something uniquely yours.”
David Kadavy, The Heart To Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

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“People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.”
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“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
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“We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself. ”
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“The user experience design of a product essentially lies between the intentions of the product and the characteristics of your user.”
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“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
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