Work (MoC) - DeveloPassion

# Work (MoC) ## Notes   - [[3 layers to goals]] - [[A path is helpful, but having the confidence is crucial]] - [[A Place For What's On Your Mind (Article)]] - [[ABCD Framework]] - [[Action changes everything]] - [[Advice to create great teams]] - [[Always Be Working (ABW)]] - [[Autonomous framework]] - [[Avoiding hard work]] - [[Be successful on your terms]] - [[Being productive is not the same as being busy]] - [[Being successful at work is a combination of having impact and aligning with management that it is indeed impactful]] - [[Bootstrapping is the hardest thing I've worked on in my entire life]] - [[Bring order to your environment]] - [[Bring your whole self to work]] - [[Build Your Knowledge System for Decades Not Months (Article)]] - [[Building a professional network has value]] - [[Burning out means exhausting all of our internal resources]] - [[Burnout phases]] - [[Bus factor]] - [[Calendars help determine when you should have traction]] - [[Calm businesses are a viable path]] - [[Calm businesses are a viable path too (Article)]] - [[Career choices - A Story about Alignment and Cohesion]] - [[Challenge of expertise]] - [[Chasing Joy Over Career - Why Happiness Should Be Your Priority Now (Article)]] - [[Circus factor]] - [[Clarity and Consistency are the twin engines of Progress]] - [[Company culture deeply impacts work that gets done]] - [[Conditions of great and fulfilling work]] - [[Deep work]] - [[Deferred lifestyle]] - [[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 010 - Nrwl NX 10]] - [[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 011 - Team Management]] - [[Developer Career Paths (Article)]] - [[Divide and conquer]] - [[Do you have any questions for me]] - [[Do you really know what brings you happiness]] - [[Don't be a doormat. If a client (or employer) treats you badly, sack them. You don't need them in your life]] - [[Don't take work advice from unsuccessful people]] - [[Effective professionals empower others]] - [[Ego depletion]] - [[Embracing Fluidity in Knowledge Management - The Cattle Approach to Ideas (Article)]] - [[Enjoy life]] - [[Evaluate your productivity on a daily basis and try to understand why it was what it was]] - [[Evening Routine]] - [[Experiencing engagement with work increases your productivity. It reduces stress and is a key to happiness at work]] - [[Exponential change]] - [[Extrinsic motivation]] - [[Figure out which problems are worth solving and which ones you can ignore]] - [[Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE)]] - [[Finding the balance between time on and time off]] - [[Five Whys Technique]] - [[Folders as Silos]] - [[General human motivations]] - [[Generalists have the edge when it comes to exploring knowledge and ideas]] - [[Go at your own pace]] - [[Going back to work - No, thank you (Article)]] - [[Hard work]] - [[Have a maximum of 3 to 5 tasks a day, and start with the most important task]] - [[Heat waves]] - [[HERO]] - [[Highlight of the day]] - [[How I Organize My Work As a Solo Founder]] - [[How I Organize My Work As a Solo Founder (Article)]] - [[How to achieve Work-Life Balance to Improve Your Well-Being (Article)]] - [[How to decide on the most important thing]] - [[How to define and revisit your career goals (Article)]] - [[How to fight against decision fatigue (Article)]] - [[How to fight against inertia to change the world (Article)]] - [[How to get started with journaling]] - [[How to Manage Remote Teams (Article)]] - [[How to Prepare for the Future of Knowledge Work (Article)]] - [[How to Take Notes at Work and Never Forget Anything (Article)]] - [[Human beings have a limited amount of decision-making ability each day]] - [[Humility doesn't mean that we have to apologize for our work]] - [[If you want to hire the best people, reach out to them]] - [[Inclusive leadership is all about empathy, trust and openness]] - [[Inclusiveness is a concern for everyone on the team]] - [[Intellectual Capital]] - [[Interstitial Journaling]] - [[Intrinsic motivation]] - [[Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation]] - [[It's easy to see someone's success because of the survivorship bias]] - [[It's okay if you need to stop and start over]] - [[Ivy Lee's advice for productivity]] - [[Kaizen group]] - [[Kanban Boards]] - [[Kanban plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Knowii Community]] - [[Knowii Community Event - Knowledge Builders - 2025-08-20 - Journaling Deep Dive]] - [[Knowii Community Event - Knowledge Builders - 2025-11-18 - OSK v3 Deep Dive Workshop]] - [[Knowii Voice AI]] - [[Knowledge Drain]] - [[Knowledge Worker Kit]] - [[Leaders vs bosses]] - [[Lean manufacturing]] - [[Lessons learned (2021 edition)]] - [[Levels of work]] - [[Leverage your key strengths]] - [[Limit Work In Progress]] - [[Logic is what lets us work within a given domain]] - [[Magnum opus]] - [[Make useful things, not merely usable things]] - [[Meetings need to be designed]] - [[Morning pages]] - [[30 Areas/33 Permanent notes/33.02 Content/Morning Routine.md|Morning Routine]] - [[Most Important Task of the Day (MITD)]] - [[Motivation comes as a result of doing something]] - [[Motivation comes through action]] - [[Observed talent is the result of hard work]] - [[On the importance of non-goals (Article)]] - [[On The Importance Of Writing (Article)]] - [[Opportunities aren't handed out]] - [[Opportunity cost]] - [[Optimizing for happiness]] - [[Overcoming Perfectionism - How to Break Free from the Enemy of Progress (Article)]] - [[Passive income requires long-term thinking]] - [[Pattern of Procrastination (PoP)]] - [[Paying attention fosters well-being]] - [[Periodic reviews]] - [[Periodic Reviews for a Happier and More Productive Life (Article)]] - [[Personal Organization 101 (Article)]] - [[Phrases to avoid in professional emails]] - [[Pillars Pipelines and Vaults (PPV)]] - [[Practice an evening routine to feel better every day (Article)]] - [[Pragmatism over formalism every time]] - [[Pre-commitment]] - [[Precision and correctness are like opposing forces]] - [[Prefer conversational interviews]] - [[Prioritizing independence]] - [[Processing by elimination]] - [[Productive and uninterrupted work requires us to take early measures against distractions]] - [[Productivity tips]] - [[Proof of Work (PoW)]] - [[Pseudo-Set Framing]] - [[Quality circle]] - [[Quixotic]] - [[Refactoring the education system]] - [[Remote work and work from home are not synonyms]] - [[Saving and Restoring Mental Contexts to Improve Mental Health and Productivity (Article)]] - [[Saving and restoring your mental contexts to improve mental health and productivity]] - [[Set your Big 3 for the day]] - [[Shared responsibility]] - [[Shared responsibility requires complete responsibility]] - [[Shared vision]] - [[Sharpness of Thinking]] - [[Shiny object syndrome]] - [[Shiny poney]] - [[Simple Time Tracking - The Paper Method That Actually Works (Article)]] - [[Solitude fuels productivity and creativity]] - [[Sometimes we fail to recognize opportunities]] - [[Sparketype assessment]] - [[Start before you are ready]] - [[Start small]] - [[Start with the why. If you can't figure out the why, stop]] - [[Stoic archer]] - [[Systems for health, intention, productivity, learning, knowledge, information management and control (Article)]] - [[Take all the blame, distribute all the praise]] - [[Team management tips - 10 more ways to kill a team (Article)]] - [[Team management tips - 10 ways to kill a team (Article)]] - [[Team management tips - What's the bus factor and 7 ways to increase it (Article)]] - [[The crucial role of setting and pursuing goals]] - [[The Crucial Role of Setting and Pursuing Goals (Article)]] - [[The key to making progress is taking action]] - [[The KISS Principle (Article)]] - [[The Law of the vital few]] - [[The more senior the position, the more vital systems design and behavioral skills become]] - [[The more senior you become, the more your job will involve filling gaps and stepping up to handle situations that aren’t anyone’s job]] - [[The more you train yourself to think in concrete terms, the more flow and consistency you will create]] - [[The most important task is often the most uncomfortable and most procrastinated upon]] - [[The mythical right time]] - [[The mythical right time (Article)]] - [[The Power of Setting Achievable Goals - How Lowering the Bar Leads to Success (Article)]] - [[The things we have to work for are often the very things most worth having]] - [[The way you write down your tasks can dictate whether it will get done]] - [[Tim Ferris advice for productivity]] - [[Time Horizons]] - [[Tips to negotiate a job offer]] - [[To be productive, we need to preserve our energy, our decision-making power, and focus on what really matters. Less is more]] - [[Top 10 reasons why goals are so important]] - [[Track time used for tasks using paper]] - [[Trade off as much money for time as you can]] - [[Tribal Knowledge]] - [[Try to get along, not ahead]] - [[Two-year test]] - [[Under-promise and over-deliver]] - [[Understanding Eventual Reciprocity (Article)]] - [[Unfair advantage]] - [[Value criticism over compliments]] - [[Variety in work is required, but it cannot come at the cost of depth]] - [[Ways to build credibility]] - [[We need to be able to ignore the distractions around us to be productive]] - [[Weekly planning helps you plan for success by determining your highest priorities for the week ahead]] - [[What are the 20% of things that bring 80% of the outcomes]] - [[What is your Ikigai]] - [[What is your purpose]] - [[What time horizons to consider]] - [[Why Test]] - [[Why time horizons matter]] - [[Why you need a personal organization system]] - [[Why you need a personal organization system (Article)]] - [[Why you should focus on happiness first]] - [[Why you should have a Personal Knowledge Management System]] - [[Why You Should Link Knowledge to Time (Article)]] - [[Work In Progress (WIP)]] - [[Work life balance]] - [[Work Life Balance (Article)]] - [[Work life fit]] - [[Work life integration]] - [[Work on your list of why's]] - [[Working under uncertainty]] - [[You don't have to work all the time]] - [[Zen Productivity]]  ## Quotes   - [[20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids]] - [[A 40-hour time-blocked work week, I estimate, produces the same amount of output as a 60+ hour work week pursued without structure]] - [[A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other]] - [[A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves]] - [[A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once that's clear, it's much easier to decide if the work you're doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth]] - [[A typical job interview is a conversation between two liars]] - [[All happiness depends on courage and work]] - [[All the genius I have lies in studying a subject profoundly]] - [[Always deliver more than expected]] - [[An hour before 9 is worth 2 after 5]] - [[An overnight success is ten years in the making]] - [[Any alley cat can stay lean when food is scarce. The trick is to stay lean during the good times]] - [[As a knowledge worker, you need systems to learn, think, plan, track, and do]] - [[As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way]] - [[Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous and you will be happy]] - [[Being above average at a few things makes you exponentially better at their intersection]] - [[Being consistent doesn't necessarily mean performing consistently]] - [[Bias towards creating value, not doing work]] - [[Build a business that actually leaves room to spend time with family at the end of the day, take a break if you need to, and do the things that you truly enjoy]] - [[Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs]] - [[Burnout is more of an issue of poor energy management and low clarity than of over-giving]] - [[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day]] - [[Contrary to popular belief, resilience isn't something that only a select few are born with]] - [[Courage is a key characteristic of future leaders and previous employees]] - [[Decisions are only the first step, the beginning of something new. Decisions open doors, but you still have to go through those to reach your destination]] - [[Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them]] - [[Design work around your life, not the other way around]] - [[Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives]] - [[Do or do not. There is no try]] - [[Do the work needed to reach your goals. Dreams are not free]] - [[Do what comes easy to you]] - [[Doing something well does not make it important]] - [[Doing something with enthusiasm, love and passion makes a world of difference]] - [[Doing the work is what makes you look like an overnight success ten years later]] - [[Doing what you love is exquisite. It's not work, it's passion]] - [[Don't accept work you don't enjoy. If you do, you'll bring more your way]] - [[Don't confuse the work behind the work with the actual work]] - [[Don’t fill the time you save through being productive and efficient with more work. Fill it with rest and recovery. By doing so, you’ll be more productive]] - [[Don't take yourself seriously, but take your work seriously]] - [[Don't work for money, make it work for you]] - [[Dreams are lovely but they are dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change]] - [[Dreams mean work]] - [[Each step, no matter how small, counts]] - [[Eventual success can only come from relentlessly showing up]] - [[Everything worthwhile is done with other people]] - [[Fall in love with the torture you're comfortable with]] - [[Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing]] - [[Finish your days satisfied with your work]] - [[Follow your curiosity. It might lead you to your passion or it might not]] - [[For me, not working is the real work]] - [[Freedom is the destination, Indie Hacking is the way]] - [[Get it done first. Get it right later]] - [[Go easy on yourself. Whatever you do today, let it be enough]] - [[Great culture, great system, great manager. Pick two]] - [[Grit is to endure the failures and adversity to achieve long term goals]] - [[Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life]] - [[Hard work includes hard thinking]] - [[Hard work is a talent because hard work means that you keep going, you keep fighting]] - [[Human excellence can only be achieved in one area, or at the most in very few]] - [[I shut up and wrote twenty-three more]] - [[I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic]] - [[Ideas are cheap. The difference between a great work and an idea is the effort to make it real]] - [[If simple things are not simple, the complex things are not possible. Simplicity is the greatest gift you can give to your coworkers]] - [[If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes -- then learn how to do it later]] - [[If the work doesn’t require creativity, delegate it, automate it, or leave it]] - [[If you are feeling stuck, set a timer to get into flow and do some deep work. No notifications, no social media, no interruptions. Just you, your discipline, and your creativity It works every time]] - [[If you are getting jealous of others, you are not working hard enough]] - [[If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are]] - [[If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong]] - [[If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination]] - [[If you spend more time planning than doing the work, you have a productivity problem]] - [[If you want to be great, walk the rope without a boss and without a net]] - [[If you want to be taken seriously, be consistent]] - [[If you want to take control of your priorities, use a calendar and not a to-do list]] - [[If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even try]] - [[If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too]] - [[In between goals is this thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed]] - [[In your quest for free productive time, preparation is your secret weapon]] - [[Innovation is rebellion until it succeeds]] - [[Instead of waiting (sometimes for years) for bigger wins to happen, you can use small wins to propel you]] - [[It is more difficult for people to make decisions when they have a large number of choices. Having too much choice leaves people feeling dissatisfied]] - [[It’s not about who does it first. It’s about who does it right]] - [[It’s your job to have the highest quality standards of anybody you work with. Every day, you’ll face pressure to lower them. Don’t do it. If you can set a high standard and simply maintain it, you’ll do very well for yourself]] - [[Knowing what to do is only half the battle]] - [[Knowledge Management isn't a separate activity. It should be part of everything you do, fully integrated into your life]] - [[Life is too short. Work on what makes you happy. Be with people who make you smile. Laugh as often as you can. Love as long as you live]] - [[Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect]] - [[Literature is a wonderful profession, because haste has no part of it. Whether a really good book is finished a year earlier or a year later, makes no difference]] - [[Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is]] - [[Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy]] - [[Luck is a word people who are lazy use to describe people who are hustling]] - [[Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity]] - [[Making money online is not that hard. The key ingredients are community, consistency, persistence, and patience]] - [[Mastery comes from the deliberate practice of what you find hard]] - [[Mastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work]] - [[More than three people can't decide anything]] - [[Move your focus away from finding the right work, toward working right, and eventually build a love for what you do]] - [[My best successes came on the heels of failures]] - [[My overall goal is to get free of being forced to work]] - [[Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow]] - [[Never take a job for which you are qualified. You won’t grow]] - [[Never time to do it right. Always time to do it twice]] - [[Nobody said being great would be easy]] - [[Not taking your work extremely seriously is a form of self-sabotage. You're so afraid to fail, you convince yourself failure doesn't matter. And in doing so, manifest the mediocrity you were afraid of in the first place]] - [[On a long enough timeframe, the thinker will always outperform the hustler]] - [[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overall and looks like work]] - [[Opportunity is missed by most people because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work]] - [[People don't quit jobs. They quit bad cultures, bad systems and bad managers]] - [[People don’t reach their potential on accident. The secret to success can be found in people’s daily agendas]] - [[People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things]] - [[People won't remember you for the work you did, but for the way you made them feel]] - [[Plans for the future need to be reviewed regularly because we change all the time]] - [[Prepare yourself for tomorrow's job market, not today's. Start by identifying and understanding the market trends]] - [[Put your work in front of others even when it's not done, not perfect]] - [[Remember that work deadlines are created by people. They can always be pushed back]] - [[Resilience is a forced response to distress, not another nifty workplace skill]] - [[Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work]] - [[Sensible people get paid for doing what they enjoy doing]] - [[Si on travaille pour gagner sa vie, pourquoi se tuer au travail]] - [[Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect]] - [[Stress doesn't come from hard work. It comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over]] - [[Take your work more seriously. Take yourself less seriously]] - [[The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook]] - [[The best jobs to have are those you can't apply for]] - [[The best talent has proof of work, not memorisation]] - [[The biggest concern for any organization should be when their most passionate people become quiet]] - [[The boat is safe in the port, but it's not for that that boats were built]] - [[The fastest way to demotivate a good employee is to allow them to watch you tolerate a bad one]] - [[The future of work is remote, asynchronous and part time. More respectful of the human nature, better aligned with our personal lives, less wasteful and more respectful of the environment]] - [[The future of work is spending more time with family]] - [[The goal of a personal organization system is to organize everything that you do for your life and work]] - [[The graveyard is full of 'irreplaceable' and 'important' people]] - [[The greatest breakthroughs are missed because they look like really hard work]] - [[The longer the time horizon, and the more ambitious your goals should be]] - [[The longer the time horizon, the more ambitious your goals should be]] - [[The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding]] - [[The more you have on your mind, the less headspace you have to think and work]] - [[The more you sweat, the less you bleed]] - [[The most successful people have the highest standards, not only for others but for themselves]] - [[The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect]] - [[The people who move the fastest aren't doing more work. They're just continuing to apply the right efforts to their bottlenecks faster than everyone else]] - [[The reward for our work is not what we get, but what we become]] - [[The secret of Knowledge Management is understanding that it's, first and foremost, a practice that needs to be fully integrated in your life & work before you can reap the benefits]] - [[The struggle is the work]] - [[The way to figure out what to work on is by working. If you're not sure what to work on, guess. But pick something and get going]] - [[The work that we find most fulfilling is almost always a recreation and extension of youthful play]] - [[There are no easy paths that are also worthwhile]] - [[There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither]] - [[There's something to be said about slowing down, whether that is for the environment, relationships, or business]] - [[Think like you're rich. Work like you're poor]] - [[To bring order into our lives we must identify problematic patterns that don't work, and replace those with new ones that do]] - [[To do your best work, focus on having fun]] - [[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit]] - [[We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause]] - [[We need to externalize our thinking to feel less overwhelmed and think more deeply]] - [[What got you here won't get you there]] - [[What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do]] - [[What you choose to work on, and who you choose to work with, are far more important than how hard you work]] - [[What you do is more important than how you do it]] - [[When people are placed in positions slightly above what they except, they are apt to excel]] - [[When there is no time for rest, the goal can only be burnout]] - [[Who is not being served by you playing small]] - [[Work 4 days a week for a while and start trying things out. Explore your creativity. Give that idea a try. Start that project. Make the first step. Taste freedom]] - [[Work as little as possible to feel fulfilled and to live a happy life]] - [[Work in silence. Success will be your noise]] - [[Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you]] - [[Work on one thing at a time until finished]] - [[Work to live. Don't live to work]] - [[Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you]] - [[Working hard is only okay if it doesn't prevent you from living your best life]] - [[Working hard makes you money. Working smart sets you free]] - [[Working less than you possibly could is not laziness]] - [[Write out 3-5 lever-moving tasks per day]] - [[You are what you repeatedly do]] - [[You aren't rewarded for hard work]] - [[You become unstoppable if you actually stop relying on other people to get things done]] - [[You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing]] - [[You don’t need to do more. You need to do what matters most, on your terms]] - [[You owe it to the world to put your work out there]] - [[You’re allowed to take breaks]] - [[Your daily work, templates, checklists, reports. These can be built to last and serve you repeatedly. Think durable, not disposable]] - [[Your work will never rise past the level of your standards. Average standards create average work]]