"Hidden from the world at Chawton cottage, suddenly, almost miraculously free of most responsibilities both domestic and social, Austen, for the first time in over a decade, had gained real and meaningful space to think and work creatively. It’s here, working at a modest writing

"The first step in simulating a pull-based workflow is tracking all projects to which you’re currently committed on a list divided into two sections: “holding tank” and “active.”" Check out part 2 of our discussion of Slow Productivity by Cal Newport!

"If you fall behind on a project, update your estimate and inform the person who originally sent you the work about the delay. The key here is transparency. Be clear about what’s going on, and deliver on your promises, even if these promises have to change. Never let a project

"Every effective entrepreneur I know shares a similar commitment to paying people who know what they’re doing so they don’t have to do the work, at a lower level of quality, all by themselves." Check out part 2 of our discussion of Slow Productivity by Cal Newport!

"If you’re exhausted, you tell yourself, you can’t be accused of laziness. I want to push back on this reaction. Not only is it unsustainable, but it won’t, in the long run, get you any closer to producing work that matters." Check out part 2 of our discussion of Slow

"Strive to reduce your obligations to the point where you can easily imagine accomplishing them with time to spare. Leverage this reduced load to more fully embrace and advance the small number of projects that matter most." Check out part 2 of our discussion of Slow

"Inspired in part by this article, I’ve become convinced in recent years that pull workflows are a powerful tool to avoid overload in the knowledge work setting. If you’re in a position to change the way your company or team organizes its work, moving to a pull strategy, similar

"Focusing intensely on a small number of tasks, waiting to finish each before bringing on something new, is objectively a much better way to use our brains to produce valuable output." Check out part 2 of our discussion of Slow Productivity by Cal Newport!

"The great scientists of past eras would have found our urgency to be self-defeating and frantic. They were interested in what they produced over the course of their lifetimes, not in any particular short-term stretch. Without a manager looking over their shoulder, or clients

"The second principle of slow productivity argues that these famous scientists were onto something. Our exhausting tendency to grind without relief, hour after hour, day after day, month after month, is more arbitrary than we recognize. It’s true that many of us have bosses or

"PRINCIPLE #2: WORK AT A NATURAL PACE Don’t rush your most important work. Allow it instead to unfold along a sustainable timeline, with variations in intensity, in settings conducive to brilliance." Check out part 2 of our discussion of Slow Productivity by Cal Newport!

"In a push-based process, each stage pushes work onward to the next as soon as it’s done. In a pull-based process, by contrast, each stage pulls in new work only when it’s ready for it." Check out part 2 of our discussion of Slow Productivity by Cal Newport!

"Shifting to a pull-based operation made backlogs impossible: the pace of the pipeline would adapt to whatever stage was running slowest. This transparency, in turn, helped the workers identify places where the system was out of balance. “A perpetually full pull box means either

"Humans in more or less our current modern form have walked the earth for roughly three hundred thousand years. For all but the last ten thousand or so of these many years, we lived as seminomadic hunters and gatherers. These timescales are sufficiently vast for the insistent

"The active position of the list, by contrast, should be limited to three projects at most. When scheduling your time, you should focus your attention only on the projects on your active list. When you complete one of these projects, you can remove it from your list. This leaves

"I want to prove to you, in other words, that accomplishment without burnout not only is possible, but should be the new standard." Check out part 2 of our discussion of Slow Productivity by Cal Newport! youtu.be/1_v6ye-3l7I

Don’t miss our discussion on The Software Engineer’s Guidebook by Gergely Orosz ! youtu.be/XApN4x_1das

the guys over at Book Overflow are reading hypermedia.systems: youtube.com/watch?v=642ltl…

banger quote from the Book Overflow review of hypermedia systems: "htmx is the studio studio ghibli of frontend frameworks" htmx is a library, btw youtube.com/watch?v=642ltl…

I went on Book Overflow to talk about The Software Engineer's Guidebook (The Software Engineer’s Guidebook). We covered: - Writing a newsletter vs writing a book - Taking initiative as a dev - Pacing yourself (and your career) - AI tools impacting interviews and more! youtube.com/watch?v=U3VM_0…