Matthew Lang

Loved this. So many times I’ll say I don’t have the time but it’s not actually true. I do have the time, just not the attention.

But really, as I thought about it, I realized I had the time. Every day is the same 24 hour cycle. Every workday around 8 hours. Surely I could have found even 20 minutes a day to work with him. But it wasn’t that. It wasn’t that I couldn’t find the time. I couldn’t find the attention.

My mind fills up with a few key projects and that’s it. I’m absorbed by those. That’s where my attention is. Had I made 20 minutes here and there for him, I’m be physically present in that moment, but mentally I’d be elsewhere. And that’s not fair to either of us.

Time and attention aren’t the same thing. They aren’t even related.

— The difference between time and attention by Jason Fried

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An extremely interesting and yet haunting visualisation of all the nuclear weapons that have exploded on Earth since 1945. The silence of the visualisation with the intermediate pings to denote each explosion is quite eerie.

Trinity from Orbital Mechanics on Vimeo.

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Nicholas Bate advises you write. A lot.

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Don’t be afraid to challenge prospective clients with goals. Make them work to prove that they’re really the right clients for you. Be bold.

— Curtis McHale by Curtis McHale

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… here’s The Art of Manliness with their take on kaizen.

The Kaizen approach to self-improvement completely circumvents the unproductive ups and downs all too common to the quest. By breaking down big, overwhelming goals into super small, discrete pieces, Kaizen encourages action. The small successes you experience with your baby steps feed on each other and start building some momentum, which leads to taking bigger and bigger actions.

— Get 1% Better Every Day: The Kaizen Way to Self-Improvement by The Art of Manliness

Nicholas Bate with more thought provoking lists of wisdom.

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Darker nights mean no more sun blessed evening rides, well at least until next year. Going to make an effort to get a few more bikes rides under my belt in the evening and enjoy the last days of summer.