Theme
What you are for, and how it keeps changing.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Speed is measurable; purpose is not. That asymmetry explains a lot. We reward the fast, the visible, the shipped, because those things fit n...
The day is finished, and it does not need your verdict. It does not have to have been productive to have been real. Let it end without a per...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
A short note for anyone who measures their life against someone else's clock.
We read other people's stories with patience and generosity, and our own with a prosecutor's eye. We remember our failures in high definitio...
You cannot set down what you refuse to name. Whatever is heavy this morning — say it plainly, at least to yourself. Naming is not complainin...
Some ambitions are genuinely yours. Others were installed so early that you cannot remember agreeing to them. Both feel identical from the i...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
On the years that do not appear in the résumé.
Write it down if you must, then put it away. The problem will still be there in the morning, and you will be better able to meet it.
The urgent is loud and the important is quiet, and so most days are consumed by the former. Emails, alerts, small fires. The important thing...