“The best companies aren’t families. They’re supporters of families. Allies of families. They’re there to provide healthy, fulfilling work environments so that when workers shut their laptops at a reasonable hour, they’re the best husbands, wives, parents, siblings, and children they can be.”
― It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
― It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
― It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
― It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Nobel Prize–winning physicist Max Planck explained it like this in his Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it,” or, more succinctly, “Science progresses one funeral at a time.”
― Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
― Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
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