Pavlo

“It’s been my experience that long-term goals constantly shift. What seems urgent today often isn’t urgent next month. Lengthy goals (i.e., anything over six months) are often demotivating.”
― S.J. Scott, How to Stop Procrastinating: A Simple Guide to Mastering Difficult Tasks and Breaking the Procrastination Habit

“you only get value from projects when they finish: to make progress, above all else, you must ensure that some of your projects finish.”
― Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

“With the right people, any process works, and with the wrong people, no process works.”
― Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

“There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration—that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo from who knows where… but I hope [my work] makes clear that waiting for inspiration to strike is a terrible, terrible plan. In fact, perhaps the single best piece of advice I can offer to anyone trying to do creative work is to ignore inspiration.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World