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Merle Shain on helping others

vutran | April 6, 2020, 8:56 p.m.

"Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same."

— Merle Shain
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James Clear on 5 Minutes

vutran | April 5, 2020, 2:18 p.m.

"What can you do with 5 good minutes?

5 good minutes of:

-pushups is a solid workout
-sprints will leave you winded
-writing can deliver 1 good page
-reading can finish an insightful article
-meditation can reset your mood

You don’t need more time—just a little focused action."
— James Clear
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Cal Newport on Busyness as Proxy for Productivity

vutran | April 2, 2020, 8:57 a.m.

"Busyness as Proxy for Productivity:

In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner."
— Cal Newport in Deep Work
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On memory by The Pragmatic Programmer

vutran | April 2, 2020, 8:51 a.m.

"The palest ink is still better than the best memory."

— Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas in The Pragmatic Programmer

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David Allen on What You are not Doing

vutran | March 30, 2020, 1:10 p.m.

"You can only feel comfortable about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing."

— David Allen

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On Study and Work

vutran | March 29, 2020, 3:46 p.m.

"Study as if you know nothing.

Work as if you can solve anything."

— James Clear

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Limits of language

vutran | March 26, 2020, 5:29 p.m.

"The limits of language are the limits of one's world"
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Better has read 12 books toward his goal of 36 books.
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2024 Reading Challenge

2024 Reading Challenge
Better has read 2 books toward his goal of 52 books.
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2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge
Better has read 17 books toward his goal of 52 books.
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2022 Reading Challenge

2022 Reading Challenge
Better has read 2 books toward his goal of 36 books.
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2021 Reading Challenge

2021 Reading Challenge
Better has read 0 books toward his goal of 60 books.
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2020 Reading Challenge

2020 Reading Challenge
Better has read 10 books toward his goal of 36 books.
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2019 Reading Challenge

2019 Reading Challenge
Better has read 21 books toward his goal of 24 books.
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