Summary: This week’s highlights include a preview of Paul Millerd’s book, Good Work, which focuses on finding meaningful work. It also discusses Steve Jobs’ “10-Minute Rule,” emphasizing the benefits of walking to stimulate creativity. Additionally, the importance of personal approaches in investing and the pitfalls of over-optimization are explored in various articles.
“When you go for a walk, you physically move through the landscape, paying light attention to your surroundings so you don’t crash into a streetlight or fall in a pothole. Which encourages your mind to pay light attention to various thoughts and ideas passing through it, too. And that, it turns out, is the ideal mental state for coming up with new ideas.” (View Highlight)
Morgan Housel defends sticking to your own approach when it suits your skills and personality. “How you invest might cause me to lose sleep, and how I invest might prevent you from looking at yourself in the mirror tomorrow. Isn’t that OK? Isn’t it far better to just accept that we’re different rather than arguing over which one of us is right or wrong?” (View Highlight)
“As we continue optimizing the proxy though, we eventually exhaust the useable similarity between proxy and goal. The proxy keeps on getting better, but the goal stops improving. (View Highlight)
“Curiosity is the crack cocaine of the writing world. Hook your readers, and they’ll follow you anywhere,” (View Highlight)
“Good work is powerful. It can reshape what you desire from life. It can fill your days with a renewable form of life energy that you want to protect… Good work doesn’t usually happen on a factory schedule and often has a natural seasonality. But when you stop doing it, good work seduces you back. It is something you must do. Once you discover your good work, take it seriously and protect it, as it can be one of the most powerful ways to show up in the world, contribute, and feel useful.” (View Highlight)