1, #113 - A question for you.
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This whole newsletter is an exercise in what I call content prioritization by proxy. There’s too much information and content and advice out there, so we can help each other out by curating what’s actually worth spending our limited attention on. We can borrow from the experience of people we trust.
And extreme curation is even more valuable. Choosing just one suggestion is more difficult—but the painful act of deciding gives the recommendation more credibility.
So, to celebrate the new year, I’m asking you to take a shot at it:
What’s the single best thing you read, heard, or watched in 2024?
Consider: Did anything change how you think? Even better: Has anything changed how you act?
Just take 1 minute (or less) and think about it. Then, reply to this email and tell me!
Happy New Year!
Reading this in Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks made me reflect on my relationship with career and I gained prospective on what truly matters in life.
‘’The Latin word for business, negotium, translates as not-leisure, reflecting the view that work was a deviation from the higher calling [of ease]’’
Culling through hundreds of highlights and notes from this year, If by Rudyard Kipling stands out....
Obviously not new to 2024 (I think it was written in 1895), but I memorized the poem this year and sometimes recite it to my son at bedtime.
A nice reflection on how meditating on ideas elevates them.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---