Walker Weekly – Life Lessons, and How to Not Die

Welcome to Walker Weekly, a regularly scheduled newsletter where I share things that I find interesting, useful, inspiring, or thought-provoking. If you have anything of your own that falls into these categories, please let me know in the comments! I’m always looking for new inspiration.

Blog post I’m loving

18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian. Maria Popova shares her wisdom gained from reading, writing, and searching for meaning over the last 18 years that she’s been so thoughtfully sharing her blog posts with all of us. I particularly like #2:

Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone. As Paul Graham observed, “prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like.” Those extrinsic motivators are fine and can feel life-affirming in the moment, but they ultimately don’t make it thrilling to get up in the morning and gratifying to go to sleep at night — and, in fact, they can often distract and detract from the things that do offer those deeper rewards.

YouTube video I’m re-watching

Quote I’m pondering

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker


That’s all for this week, thanks a lot for following along!

Stay curious,

Walker


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One response to “Walker Weekly – Life Lessons, and How to Not Die”

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    M Payne

    Drucker quote above is quite similar to Elon’s second rule (I believe it is) of engineering/product development …

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