(…) technology is everything that doesn’t work yet. Technology is around us everywhere. The spoon was technology once; fire was technology once. When we figured out how to make them work, they disappeared in the background and became part of our everyday lives.
Technology is, by definition, the intellectual frontier. It’s taking things from science and culture that we have not figured out how to mass produce or create efficiently and figuring out how to commercialize it and make it available to everybody.
Technology will always be a great field where you can pick up specific knowledge that is valuable to society.
Spend time doing things that matters
Here’s something to consider: the world doesn’t get better when you spend more time engaging with mass media. That’s pretty clear.
But it does get better when you spend more time doing things that matter. Actions matter.
Dos habilidades claves para destacar en la Nueva Economía
Encontré esta cita releyendo las notas que tomé cuando leí Deep Work de Cal Newport el 2017:
Dos habilidades claves para destacar en la Nueva Economía:
- La habilidad de dominar rápidamente temas complejos.
- La habilidad de producir a nivel élite, tanto en calidad como en velocidad.
— Cal Newport, Deep Work. (p. 42)
Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy
I read Deep Work by Cal Newport on 2017. I found this quote rereading my notes:
Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy
- The ability to quickly master hard things.
- The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.
— Cal Newport, Deep Work. (p. 42)
Everywhere I have sought peace…
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
— Thomas a Kempis
Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.
Each of us needs to put ourselves, physically, in the position to do that kind of deep work. We need to give our bodies, as Virginia Woolf put it, a room of our own—even if only for a few stolen hours—where we can think and have quiet and solitude. (…)
It’s hard to make that time. It’s hard (and expensive) to get away. We have responsibilities. But they will be better for our temporary disappearance. We will carry back with us the stillness from our solitude in the form of patience, understanding, gratitude, and insight.
— Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key (p. 218)