The things that make a great job great...are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer … - Cal Newport

If you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.

You have to get good before you can expect good work.

You need to get good in order to get good things in your working life.

By working backward from their deep values to their technology choices, digital minimalists transform these innovations from a source of distraction into tools to support a life well lived. By doing so, they break the spell that has made so many people feel like they’re losing control to their screens.

What ended up mattering, however, was instead the obsessive efforts of an eccentric creative talent who spent over three years nurturing a vision, coming at it again and again in an attempt to create something special.

Here’s what I respect: creating something meaningful and then presenting it to the world,