The list is your assistant

Curiosamente, en la era en la que más información tenemos, menos sabemos manejarla.

How about if we replace mission statements with invitation statements instead? Invitations are much more agreeable. Invite people to participate in your vision to create a better future, but don’t push your vision on the whole world because people will fight you on that. If you force your mission onto people without consent, so much of your otherwise creative energy will be wasted on defending yourselves eventually, and you’ll deserve that kind of response.

What a great idea to make businesses more humane.

Modern educational institutions care a lot about content: what theories we teach, what ideas students are exposed to, what skills they come away knowing. But we rarely address the more general question of how one transforms their mind into a tool well-honed for elite-level cognitive work.

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All human evil comes from this: our inability to sit still in a chair for half an hour.

When it comes to personal effectiveness, the tools are never the issue.

I say all this to suggest that, perhaps, email is not “broken” but the way we are using it is. Perhaps there is a solution that could make things better for you that doesn’t involve a new app or service. Perhaps, if you hate it, in changing the way you approach it you’ll find a way to love it again.

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Intuition is a poor guide but a great guard. 

How to plan for life hitting you in the face?

The short answer is, you don’t. There are too many variables to control for.

💬 Wise words found on a trail in Costa Rica:

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.