Maker’s schedule vs Managers schedule
The two types of approach towords your day to day life goals.
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📕 Book of The week
May you should talk to someone by Lori Gottlieb
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This book will see a different side of a coin and different perspectives to see a world, different viewpoints, and scenarios of life. This book tells you about a therapist, who also taking therapy from another therapist because of some disturbance in their personal and professional life. You should read this book at least once.
🗨️Quote worth sharing
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.”
— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
I wake at five in the morning. I get to work as early as I can. I work as long as I can. I do this every day of the week, including holidays. I don’t take vacations voluntarily and I try to do my work even when I’m on vacation. (And even when I’m in the hospital.)
In other words, I am still and forever in the candy store [where he worked as a child]. Of course, I’m not waiting on customers; I’m not taking money and making change; I’m not forced to be polite to everyone who comes in (in actual fact, I was never good at that). I am, instead, doing things I very much want to do — but the schedule is there; the schedule that was ground into me; the schedule you would think I would have rebelled against once I had the chance. —About scheduling by writer Isaac Asimov in his memoir
Worth exploring
1. Watch
Why all world maps are wrong
Maps are flat representations of our spherical planet.
Johnny Harris cut open a plastic globe to understand just what it takes to turn a sphere into something flat. His struggle to make a flat map out of the plastic globe is indicative of a challenge mapmakers have faced for centuries: It is mathematically impossible to translate the surface of a sphere onto a plane without some form of distortion.
To solve this problem, mathematicians and cartographers have developed a huge library of representations of the globe, each distorting a certain attribute and preserving others. For instance, the Mercator projection preserves the shape of countries while distorting the size, especially near the north and south pole.
For a more accurate view of the land area look at the Gall-Peters projection, which preserves area while distorting the shape. In the end, there's no "right" map projection.
Each comes with trade-offs, and cartographers make projection decisions based on the particular tasks at hand. But if you are interested in seeing an accurate depiction of the planet, it's best to stick with a globe. — From Video Description.
2. Read
Maker’s schedule vs Managers schedule By Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule. The manager's schedule is for bosses. It's embodied in the traditional appointment book, with each day cut into one-hour intervals. You can block off several hours for a single task if you need to, but by default you change what you're doing every hour. —Snippet from Maker’s schedule vs Managers schedule
Similar to more detailed https://fs.blog/maker-vs-manager/
Consider the daily schedule of famed novelist Haruki Murakami. When he’s working on a novel, he starts his days at 4 am and writes for five or six continuous hours. Once the writing is done, he spends his afternoons running or swimming, and his evenings, reading or listening to music before a 9 pm bedtime. Murakami is known for his strict adherence to this schedule. —Snippet from Maker vs. Manager
3. Listen
Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1 By Naval Ravikant.
Question of this week
What do you do on weekends?
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