Appendix, 10 tools for Embracing your Finitude 1

Appendix, 10 tools for Embracing your Finitude 1. adopt a fixed volume approached to productivity, 2.serialize serialize serilize 3. Decide in advance what to fail at 4. Focus on what you’ve already completed, not just on what’s left to complete 5. Consolidate your caring 6. Embrace boring and single purpose technology 7. Seek out novelty in the mundane 8. Be a ‘researcher’ in relationships 9. Cultivate instantaneous generosity 10. Practice doing nothing

— from Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)

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Then keep the good ones well. The best relationships are win-win — built on a real concern that the other person win as much as you do, not just in business but in friendship and love. Stay curious: the deepest reason long-married couples and old friends drift into feeling unheard is that they simply lose their curiosity about each other, so make a point of staying a kind of permanent researcher in your closest relationships. Be open to feedback — one of my favorite tools is to ask someone close, "On a scale of ten, how am I doing, and what would make it a ten?". — Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)

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