Most urgent things aren't important

Really, really good stuff, or really important stuff, will find us. The good stuff, it'll come to you. People will share it with you or you'll hear about it.

The idea that we're responsible for staying up to date with the most important news in the world... we don't actually play a role in what happens, and so the idea that we're responsible for being on it all the time, that's a job that we can quit.

Most of the stress comes internally, from our feeling that if we don't get back to people right away, we're not enough, we're not measuring up.

Most productivity advice focuses on getting better and faster about doing the things that are already in front of you. Our perspective is basically that those are the defaults.

There's always things that you're supposed to do or it sounds like a good idea to do. I always have this question, is this important to do now or is it important to maybe do later?