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When you support free, you support billionaires. When you pay, you support sane businesses and real creators.

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Métodos puede haber un millón y alguno más, pero principios hay pocos. El hombre capaz de captar principios puede luego escoger sus propios métodos. El que aplica métodos ignorando los principios con seguridad encontrará problemas.

We live in a world that values action and where back to back meetings are a badge of productivity. Quarterly targets mean that we tend to be focused on the next thing on our to-do-list rather than looking back to evaluate how the last thing we’ve just completed could be improved. Few of us routinely take time out to reflect on past events. However, by missing out on opportunities for reflection you may be making yourself less effective than you could be. Reflection brings three distinctive advantages.

Why do we always wish that the New Year will be different from the old year? Why do we believe that we have the power to change future events? Let's stop thinking about how to change the new year, and concentrate on what we can control: today.

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Optimal is ultimately sterile. It leaves no room for much of anything else, including joy.

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We get what we pay attention to. Our narration determines what we experience and what we remember.

So true: with enough white space, deadlines don’t matter.

Make no mistake, real deadlines are irritating impositions upon the desire to be free of any such responsibilities

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When you feel like you’re not productive, it’s not necessarily because you’re lazy or because you have bad habits, it’s because you’re not working on the right projects and you haven’t found the ones that are intrinsically motivating and meaningful to you.

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When you rush you maybe do more. But you also miss more.

Capitalism is an efficient system for surfacing and addressing the needs of consumers. But once it veers toward control over markets by a single entity, those benefits disappear.