Little Websites Everywhere > “How many more websites do I have left in me before the old fire flickers and dies? Is snuffed out. Before making websites is no longer a viable way to earn a living?” > I still build websites for a living and I feel like a dinosaur.
“Five years ago, people bragged about waking up at 5am, doing cold plunges, having inbox zero, and working while endlessly Peletoning. Now it’s all about having 17 agents, not opening email, and AI running your business. It’s the exact same performance, just with different props.” www.elenaverna.com/p/please-…
“The practice economy is what keeps a community running. It’s knitted together through relationships, reputation, and service. It’s the most resilient form of work in human history, compressed by every economic revolution. It always comes back.” schoolofthepossible.substack.com/p/the-pra…
“We are all product managers now, pleading with obtuse underlings to go back and try again and to get it right this time.” eod.com
“Percentage of U.S. employees who say they regularly feign working while at their desks : 58” harpers.org
“[The Great Stay] is driven by fear. [Workers] are staying not because they love their role but because they’ve looked at the alternatives and concluded that the risk of leaving exceeds the pain of staying. thedrum.com
Personal Business. “The type of business that both sustains and is sustained by a community.” (are.na)
Listen: Flow State: Okonski. A nice listen to go gently into your weekend.
“There’s nothing at all wrong with honing in, developing your craft, making variations of things you’re good at, and getting better each time. Nothing small about it. Nothing unfulfilling about it.”
“There seems to be a certain essence in us that we must allow to guide us through life. If we defy this compass, we can end up in places we don’t belong. But if we trust it, follow it, we might do something as grand as fulfilling our purpose.”