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One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all.
“Or perhaps you’ve tethered your self-esteem to the most crazy-making standard of all, ‘realizing your potential’ – which means you’ll never get to rest, because how can you ever be sure there’s not a little more potential left to realize?”
― Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
― Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
“Erecting barriers against the existential is not new—before YouTube we had (and still have) mindless television and heavy drinking to help avoid deeper questions—but the advanced technologies of the twenty-first-century attention economy are particularly effective at this task.”
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
“The Protocol Principle Designing rules that optimize when and how coordination occurs in the workplace is a pain in the short term but can result in significantly more productive operation in the long term.”
― A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
― A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
“The Principle of Least Resistance: In a business setting, without clear feedback on the impact of various behaviors to the bottom line, we will tend toward behaviors that are easiest in the moment.”
― Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
― Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
“The structures of the modern world implicitly promise that we can operate as leaders, even as Christian leaders, without thought or need for God. Instead of our foundation being in Christ and His kingdom’s way of influence, we rest on the cultural foundation set by the modern world of what it is to lead. We measure leadership with earthly definitions of success and power. A secular autopilot version of Christian leadership takes hold, where we lead like practical atheists, with God as an afterthought.”
― A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders
― A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders
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