btbytes: Zeitgeist

~ Tuesday, March 20 ~

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“ Why is it that between 25 and 50 per cent of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work? It’s not just the number of hours we’re working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time. What we’ve lost, above all, are stopping points, finish lines and boundaries. Technology has blurred them beyond recognition. Wherever we go, our work follows us, on our digital devices, ever insistent and intrusive. It’s like an itch we can’t resist scratching, even though scratching invariably makes it worse.

— The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review

“ People have studied differential equations for about three centuries and statistics for about one century.

— Easiest and hardest classes to teach — The Endeavour

~ Monday, March 19 ~

“ you must balance the necessity of getting paid today for your work and investing in future relationships. As a culture we tend to see our homes, retirement accounts and occasionally cars or boats as investments, continuing the put in time, effort and money because we believe the returns will make it worthwhile.
As entrepreneurs, our networks, relationships and connections are powerful investments in your future.

— Balancing Investment and Instant Gratification | kellyazevedo.com

~ Sunday, March 18 ~

Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain -- Science & Technology -- Sott.net

~ Wednesday, March 14 ~

“ Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don’t know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It’s that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don’t know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

— Paul Bowles in The Sheltering Sky:

~ Monday, August 22 ~

“ In this respect, using Lisp is like living in a rich country instead of a poor one: it may seem unfortunate that one has to work to stay thin, but surely this is better than working to stay alive, and being thin as a matter of course.

— Paul Graham in On Lisp. pg. 285

~ Sunday, October 17 ~

Five Lessons on How to Treat People

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Five Lessons About How To Treat People
— Author Unknown

1. First Important Lesson - “Know The Cleaning Lady”

During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: “What is the first…

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~ Friday, June 19 ~

“ First, I’m just the sort of person who kind of knows what he wants to say; I can’t remember ever staring at the blank screen, trying to think of what to write.

— From the Desk of David Pogue - Pogue’s Productivity Secrets Revealed

~ Monday, June 8 ~

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