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Andrea McAts
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For most sharks, 80 per cent of the time, an attack will end in failure. As a result, they don’t go out on training swims or refine their hunting skills with drills
“A direct strategy for reducing collaboration overhead is to replace asynchronous communication with real-time conversations.”
― Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
― Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“Those subjects were for all those people who had an aptitude for them—the ones who carried a slide rule and could take a radio apart. I was a liberal arts snob, illiterate about the physical world I lived in, incurious about how things worked.”
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
“the essence of writing is rewriting. Very few writers say on their first try exactly what they want”
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
“The economic activity in which knowledge is transformed into an artifact with market value through the application of cognitive effort.”
― Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
― Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“the Abyssinian church and the church of the Sudan were once part of the Eastern church of Byzantium. Thus African music found its way into the Byzantine liturgy, which later filtered out into Europe and colored the Gregorian chants of the early Roman Catholic Church.”
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
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