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For many in my circle it is different things:
“life’s too short for this..”
“I’m quietly suffering in social isolation from the pandemic”
“I want more money”
“I feel hopeless I will ever get anywhere so why bother”
Conversely there are a cohort who have just dug their heels in and have almost gotten a promo/raise or both almost by default from the sheer volume of churn alone.
The notebook helps because there aren’t 1,000 tabs / apps open. The phone is down so no social media bs. So this is really just a focusing exercise. And of course there is something pleasurable in touching the right pen to paper and feeling the pen move along the paper.
Obviously that’s not for everyone. You don’t need to go to college to do any of that either. It’s a signal that you may have learnt something and may have some smarts if you went to a good school. Beyond that if you’re sharp and GSD on the job, that ultimately outweighs everything else. How you get there - doesn’t have to be via college.
Van Eyck is an absolute genius of an artist whether he is validated by some billionaire tech moghul or not. Do not destroy the beauty of the art with logic and technological aggression.
https://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/MATT+....
Any recommendations for books with a more updated approach?
When you work with computer code that obeys logic and that we have the power of telling the computer what to do, it’s easy to forget that humans are different, they have a dash of irrationality and emotion.
Also that many times, we just don’t have all the context behind why someone may be doing/not doing the things they are.