You won’t be able to convince a child to do something by taking away his toy. You would show him a brighter, more interesting one, and he would happily take it from your hands. One cannot impose good by vile means.”
“Perhaps Marshall’s most striking habit was his insistence on leaving the office each day at 5:30 p.m. In an age before cell phones and email, Marshall didn’t put in a second shift late into the night once he got home. Having experienced burnout earlier in his career, he felt it was important to relax in the evening. “A man who worked himself to tatters on minor details had no ability to handle the more vital issues of war,” he once said.”
― A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
― A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
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