⏱️ How to keep things easy

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I. You can avoid criticism or you can avoid irrelevance, but you can’t choose both.

If you want to avoid criticism, create less. Take fewer chances. Don’t be as creative. Certainly don’t put yourself in a position where you might fail.

If you want to avoid irrelevance, create more. Take more chances. Be creative. Certainly don’t put yourself in a position where you can never fail.

You can avoid criticism or you can avoid irrelevance, but you can’t choose both.

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II. Consistency is the key to keeping things easy.

30 minutes a day of writing leads to a book. 30 minutes a day of coding leads to a functional piece of software. 30 minutes a day of reading builds wisdom and knowledge.

Small, consistent efforts compound into years of accomplishment—but only if you stay consistent. The key is not missing too many days.

Steve Jobs on how to focus:

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”

Over Ruled by Neil Gorsuch

A book about how we have gotten to a point in America where we have too many laws, many being written by non-elected officials, and how we got to this point.

It's both interesting and frustrating (not the book, but what you learn from reading it) at the same time. It's insightful but upsetting to see how our laws can be used in essentially unfair ways and how most people are rather defenseless to stop it.

This book might be dry for some, and at times I was a little confused trying to track with everything. But overall Gorsuch does a good job writing a book like this for the average person who knows very little about the legal world.

7.5/10

P.S. An accurate New Year’s resolution.