When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
Category: value
#85 – Clarke on Religion
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Arthur C. Clarke
#75 – de Botton, News
a flourishing life requires a capacity to recognize the times when the news no longer has anything original or important to teach us; periods when we should refuse imaginative connection with strangers, when we must leave the business of governing, triumphing, failing, creating or killing to others, in the knowledge that we have our own objectives to honour in the brief time still allotted to us.
Alain de Botton
#33 – Yang on Healthcare
Our system rewards activity and not helpfulness.
Andrew Yang
#28 – Drucker on Waste of Time…
Nothing is quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
#27 – Ferriss on Value
Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.
Tim Ferriss
“busi-ness can mask a vicious form of laziness”
Here is a fantastic little clip about the unhealthy cult of activity out there…
“their busyness may be a subtle, but powerful form of distraction”
#23 – Ferriss on Work
Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Tim Ferriss
#21 – Heinlein on Society
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
#17 – Lance on Value
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Bert Lance
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