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The modern workplace is sick. Chaos should not be the natural state at work.
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006 |
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…you hereby have our permission to bury the hustle. To put in a good day’s work, day after day, but nothing more.
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018 |
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If you can’t fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not working longer hours.
|
042 |
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You can only do great work if you have adequate quality time to do it.
|
063 |
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Workaholism is a contagious disease. You can’t stop the spread if you’re the one bringing it into the office.
|
080 |
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Great people who are eager to do great work come from the most unlikely places and looking nothing like what you might imagine.
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103 |
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Most deadlines aren’t so much deadlines as dreadlines. Unrealistic dates mired by ever-expanding project requirements. More work piles on but the timeline remains the same. That’s not work, that’s hell.
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136 |
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Whatever it takes means sloppy work in the service of just delivering something.
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171 |
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You can only extend so many promises before you’ve spent all your future energy. Promises are easy and cheap to make, actual work is hard and expensive.
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201 |
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We’re constantly working in our heads, which means it feels like work never ends.
|
088 |
