Trevor Loy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Trevor Loy

Now that we have progress so rapid that it can be observed from year to year, no one calls it progress. People call it change, and rather than yearn for it, they brace themselves against its force. -Stewart Brand (@stewartbrand), _The Clock of the Long Now_ cc @longnow

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"There's no education in the 2nd kick of a mule." -Mark Twain If you have to layoff, cut ~2x amt u think needed. U can regain team trust & productivity after 1 layoff, esp. if show how it ensures sustainable future. After 2nd rd of cuts, u lose trust forever & best ppl leave.

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[General George C.] Marshall was a clean-desk man, famously convinced that “no one ever had an original idea after three o’clock in the afternoon,” and he disdained orthodoxy, sycophants, and the telephone. -Rick Atkinson, _The Day of Battle_

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Investment risk comes primarily from too-high prices, and too-high prices often come from excessive optimism and inadequate skepticism and risk aversion. -Howard Marks, _The Most Important Thing Illuminated_

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"...about political & intellectual convictions, religious & moral beliefs, assessments of others, memories... As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think abt it, our steady state = unconsciously assuming we are very close to omniscient." -Kathryn Schulz, _Being Wrong_ 4/4

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Along with its advantages, past experience carries the drawback that things never happen the same way again. -Winston S. Churchill, _Their Finest Hour_

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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. -Jim Collins, _Good to Great_

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Researchers in the new field of interruption science have found that it takes an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from a phone call. Yet such interruptions come every eleven minutes—which means we’re never caught up with our lives. -Pico Iyer, _The Art of Stillness_

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@deenashakir I would also add One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez

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Whatever success I’ve had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing than anything I know. -Ray Dalio, _Principles_

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