Postanly Weekly
How to Escape Productivity Anxiety And End The Cycle of “Never Enough”
Artwork: Francesco Bongiorni
Hello,
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A quote worth repeating: “Don’t trust the map, trust the compass!” A great acknowledgement that we often don’t have a fully formed map of life ahead. A good compass (a good set of principles/systems/values), however, can always help us stay on the best path.
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Essay of the week
How to Escape Productivity Anxiety And End The Cycle of “Never Enough” — In the modern age of work, there are no clear rules on when to take a break from the cycle of getting things done. For many people, checking things off…
Insightful essays I read this week
How Disrupting Your Daily Routine Can Actually Make You More Productive — Study most productivity books and they’ll tell you it’s the last thing you should do: disrupting your daily routine. The daily routine, after all, is supposed to be…
Walking as a Productivity System — Most writers have a system in place to drive the work they do. My own system, for example, is mad and unpredictable, and it’s based on a mysterious alchemy of guilt, panic, dumb luck, and caffeine-induced tweaking.
Sometimes Mindlessness Is Better Than Mindfulness — “Be present.” This is the mantra of mindfulness meditation and a supposed key to self-awareness and acceptance. In one type of mindfulness exercise, the goal is to perform…
116 Principles for Business, Life, and Learning —While mental models guide comprehension, principles guide behavior. Fundamentally, principles act as the core operating system behind decision making.
A concept worth understanding — Occam’s Razor: If there are multiple explanations for why something happened and they are equally persuasive, assume the simplest one is true. In the search for truth, remove unnecessary assumptions. Trust the lowest-complexity answer.
Timeless wisdom — “The curse of knowledge is that it closes your mind to what you don’t know. Good judgment depends on having the skill— and the will— to open your mind. A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it’s time to abandon some of the most cherished parts of your identity."— Adam Grant in Think Again
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To our common journey,
Until next week,
Be Epic!
Thomas