Our culture and biology are engineered for short term gains not long term meaning
Slow productivity: extending your interval for achievement to the scale of years up from weeks or days. Play long-term games. The most prolific producers make progress on the scale of years.
Roles and values document with a root directory—look into
A day off doesn’t mean not working, it just means full autonomy—blank calendar.
Splits time between community, craft, constitution (health), and contemplation (soul)
We have moral intuitions about things a at the level of whether they feel good and do not. The challenge is to structure a life towards the good
Some have arrived at a conclusion that craft is a path to the sacred. It implements a clearer value framework and hierarchy
Figuring out your life purely from philosophy is a a difficult proposition. David foster Wallace tried to do it and he ended up miserable.
People tend to think about belief, action and revelation backwards. They want to start with revelation to build conviction in the belief before acting and then gain revelation. How religion was meant to work is you start with belief, do the action, and then gain revelation.
It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than it is to think your way into a new way of acting
Digital minimalism: humanist approach. Figure out what you want and then what tech supports that vs trying to implement rules for yourself to use tech less.
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