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Dan Silvestre

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5-Bullet Monday #219: Things I Found Cool this Week

Happy Monday! What I'm sharing— You can't hoard life by Oliver Burkeman: "Spending your days trying to get experiences “under your belt”, in an effort to maximise your collection of experiences, or to feel more confident about the future supply of similar experiences, means placing yourself in a position from which you can never enjoy them fully, because there’s a different agenda at play." What I'm pondering— “We've become so used to the idea that the only reward for getting better is moving...

17 days ago • 2 min read

Happy Monday! What I'm sharing— Make people happier — not just wealthier and healthier by Sigal Samuel: "We don’t have to feel happy in the moment to feel that our lives are worth living. Part of our happiness rests not in the present, but in the meaning we derive from working toward our goals in the future — and in the hope we have that we’ll be able to actually achieve those goals." What I'm pondering— “We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work...

24 days ago • 2 min read

Happy Monday! What I'm sharing— The power of 15 minutes (and other ideas) by Oliver Burkeman: "(...) while you might choose to use a technique like this to build up to 20 minutes, then half an hour, then an hour, and so on, it’s also the case, from one perspective, that life is just one long sequence of 15-minute periods, stacked next to each other. In other words: you never have to do anything for more than 15 minutes! You may just sometimes have to string a few of them end-to-end." What I'm...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Happy Monday! What I'm sharing— Rest Takes Hard Work by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: "This "deep play" illustrates another important point: the best rest is active, not just passive. We often think of “rest” as involving a bag of salty snacks and a TV remote, but working out or playing piano actually recharges your mental and physical batteries more effectively than binge-watching that hot new show." What I'm pondering— “Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Happy Monday! Get more out of books with Shortform’s POWERFUL nonfiction book guides Have a shelf full of unread books? Shortform can help you learn (and retain) the world's best ideas in a fraction of the time with their super-detailed book guides. Take your understanding of important subjects to the next level with Shortform’s comprehensive coverage of must-reads in every nonfiction genre - from productivity to self-improvement. What’s best is you get all this for the price of 1 book per...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Happy Monday! What I'm sharing— A cupboard of tools by Oliver Burkeman: "I see a technique like this for what it is: another tool in the cupboard. It’s all any technique could ever be! And yet we seem desperate for some system that could save us – for the productivity trick or morning routine or life philosophy that would make everything run smoothly at last, so long as we kept following it." What I'm pondering— “Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Time Management for Managers: The Ultimate Guide Read on my website Read time: 7 minutes Let’s talk about time management for managers: Imagine you're the captain of a ship, sailing across a wide, blue ocean. Your ship is your team, and the vast sea represents the time you have every day. As the captain, your job is to guide your ship safely to the treasure island, which is your goal for the day. This story is a lot like the job of a manager, who has to lead their team to achieve their goals...

about 2 months ago • 9 min read

Happy Monday! Boost productivity with ClickUp Brain: the all-in-one AI for managing tasks, projects, and content creation effortlessly. Try for free now! What I'm sharing— The Replacing Guilt series by Minding Your Way. A fantastic series of articles. Start with Replacing guilt, Half-assing it with everything you've got, and Rest in motion. What I'm pondering— “If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” — David...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

How to Focus Better at Work: 7 Effective Tips to Stay Focused Read on my website Read time: 8 minutes In this article, I’ll share 7 effective tips to focus better at work and stay focused. Do you ever find it super hard to keep your brain on track at work? With all the beeps from your phone and the endless internet rabbit holes, it's like your attention is being pulled in a million directions. You’re not alone. “How to focus better at work?” is one of the questions I get asked the most. I get...

2 months ago • 10 min read

Happy Monday! What I'm sharing— The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy by Dan Shipper: "We’ll go from makers to managers, from doing the work to learning how to allocate resources—choosing which work to be done, deciding whether work is good enough, and editing it when it’s not. It means a transition from a knowledge economy to an allocation economy. You won’t be judged on how much you know, but instead on how well you can allocate and manage the resources to get...

2 months ago • 2 min read
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