January 2011
4 posts
Killing Your Job
When is the right time to walk away from a project or job? And what about all your fears of leaving?
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” -Niccolò Machiavelli,...
“But in business, like they say, you don’t get what you deserve, you get...”
– Jay-Z
“To do creativity at the level we do it … five days a week, eight hours a...”
– Ferran Adrian
Wisdom and Happiness
I believe that David Foster Wallace was a better essayist and thinker than a writer of fiction, and I like his oft-quoted Kenyon commencement address very much; in it, he suggests that controlling one’s attention is integral to happiness, to real wisdom, and to meaningful freedom:
I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually...