“Work is done, then forgotten. Therefore it lasts forever.” The Tao Te Ching

1: Who doesn’t love a new beginning?  

New projects. New things. New relationships.

“Because the moment of starting belongs to the world of limitlessness: For as long as we haven’t done any work on a project, it’s still possible to believe that the end result might match the ideal in our minds,”  Oliver Burkeman writes in Meditations … continue reading

1: “There is a vast academic and popular literature on the art of decision-making,” Oliver Burkeman writes in Meditations for Mortals.

“But much of it misses the point,” Oliver observes.

How do we get it wrong? “By treating decisions as things that just sort of come along,” he writes.

“It’s as though we’re sitting behind our enormous desk in the executive suite,” Oliver explains, “sipping our coffee, and every … continue reading