The key to meaningful work is in the decision to keep returning to the efforts you find important. Not in getting everything right every time. - Cal Newport

Money is a neutral indicator of value. By aiming to make money, you're aiming to be valuable.

The day the declutter was over, I raced back to Facebook, to my old blogs, to Discord, gleeful and ready to dive back in — and then, after about thirty minutes of aimless browsing, I kind of looked up and thought … why am I doing this? This is … boring? This isn’t bringing me any kind of happiness. It took a declutter for me to notice that these technologies aren’t actually adding anything to my life.

Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity.