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Naval:

(…) 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.

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:

1. La habilidad de dominar rápidamente temas complejos.
2. La habilidad de producir a nivel élite, tanto en calidad como en velocidad.

-- Cal Newport, Deep Work. (p. 42)

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

1. The ability to quickly master hard things.
2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

-- Cal Newport, Deep Work. (p. 42)

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)

James Clear on goals:

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Your goal is your desired outcome. Your system is the collection of daily habits that will get you there. This year, spend less time focusing on outcomes and more time focusing on the habits that precede the results.