More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Trump administration threatens Harvard's accreditation. Loss of accreditation means Harvard wouldn't be eligible to receive federal student aid.

- Wild workplaces!

- Dailey Coach on Unwavering Focus.

- Why the Trump administration is focusing on Harvard.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Bill Walton an appreciation.

- VDH on Fear Trump - Or Bust. Have to wonder how many people are going to vote Republican for the first time in their lives because of what they are trying to do to Donald Trump?

- Sam Altman on Focus

- Walton and the Wizard. Nobody loved John Wooden more than Bill Walton.

Choosing What to Focus On

Sam Altman on Focus

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack. If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have." - Gregory McKeown

"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves." - Aldous Huxley

"When specific knowledge is taught, it's through apprenticeships, not schools." - Naval Ravikant

"That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult - if you don't lose it." - Kevin Kelly

Hocus Pocus by Focus

 

Because we all need some more rock yodeling, whistling and jazz flute in our life.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Violent revolutions do not so much redistribute wealth as destroy it." - Will and Ariel Durant

"History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all." - Will Durant

"The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints." - Will and Ariel Durant  

"If Rationalism wishes to govern the world without regard to the religious needs of the soul, the experience of the French Revolution is there to teach us the consequences of such a blunder." - Renan

"The responsibility is all yours; no one can stop you from being honest or straightforward." - Marcus Aurelius 

"Focus is not something you aspire to... or something you do on Monday. It's something you do every minute." - Jony Ivy 

Farnam Street Knowledge

- Love, Happiness and Time

- How Not to Be Stupid

- Focusing is an Art, Not a Science

- Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform

It could be argued that if you truly regularly incorporated the lessons from these four short articles into your life then you'd have a much more productive and happy 2020.

Hocus Pocus by Focus

Because rock needs more yodeling (not to mention jazz flute and whistling).