Work

Various

• Work things don’t matter since you don’t own your job, you should not make them part of your being.
• The best jobs are jobs where you have some ownership (real stake, not like code ownership).
• The world wants us to be two separate beings, our work self and our personal self.
  • This is a false dichotomy, it is simply not true.
  • It is very tempting to embrace this, but we should not!
  • The world wants us to think this so that we can sacrifice the personal personhood for the work personhood.
• Quality of your life follows an S curve with x being amount of money. Get yourself past the activation point, but not too much more.

Quotes

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. - Tao Te Ching