Tom Ward
@tomward.bsky.social
“Self-judgment gets nothing done. Constantly berating yourself to do things from a sense of self-imposed obligation – with the feeling that you absolutely have to do them, in order to count as an adequate human – is a miserable way to live.”
- Oliver Burkeman
- Oliver Burkeman
December 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“Self-judgment gets nothing done. Constantly berating yourself to do things from a sense of self-imposed obligation – with the feeling that you absolutely have to do them, in order to count as an adequate human – is a miserable way to live.”
- Oliver Burkeman
- Oliver Burkeman
“You have to train before the race, not after. You have to build the skill before you get the job that requires it. You have to be trustworthy for years before anyone trusts you with something important. The bill comes first. The reward comes later.”
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
December 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“You have to train before the race, not after. You have to build the skill before you get the job that requires it. You have to be trustworthy for years before anyone trusts you with something important. The bill comes first. The reward comes later.”
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
“There’s a specific exhaustion that comes from constantly shape-shifting to fit what you think people want. I call it type 2 burnout. You’re not overworked, you’re just working against your own grain.”
- Dipa Halder
- Dipa Halder
December 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“There’s a specific exhaustion that comes from constantly shape-shifting to fit what you think people want. I call it type 2 burnout. You’re not overworked, you’re just working against your own grain.”
- Dipa Halder
- Dipa Halder
"Habits are either the best or the worst things in the world; they either carry us to heaven or hurl us to hell. Form only those that will prove an honor to you."
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Habits are either the best or the worst things in the world; they either carry us to heaven or hurl us to hell. Form only those that will prove an honor to you."
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”
- David Foster Wallace
- David Foster Wallace
November 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”
- David Foster Wallace
- David Foster Wallace
“Wrong decisions are part of life. Being able to make them work anyway is one of the abilities of those who are successful.”
- Warren Buffett
- Warren Buffett
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“Wrong decisions are part of life. Being able to make them work anyway is one of the abilities of those who are successful.”
- Warren Buffett
- Warren Buffett
“…I’m very particular about who I spend my time with because I do believe that there are genuinely energy vampires and energy catalysts in humans.”
- Harley Finkelstein
- Harley Finkelstein
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“…I’m very particular about who I spend my time with because I do believe that there are genuinely energy vampires and energy catalysts in humans.”
- Harley Finkelstein
- Harley Finkelstein
“Reading gives you pattern recognition for problems you haven't faced yet.
Having someone who solved the same problem you're facing whispering the answer in your ear is basically a cheat code.”
- Shane Parrish
Having someone who solved the same problem you're facing whispering the answer in your ear is basically a cheat code.”
- Shane Parrish
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“Reading gives you pattern recognition for problems you haven't faced yet.
Having someone who solved the same problem you're facing whispering the answer in your ear is basically a cheat code.”
- Shane Parrish
Having someone who solved the same problem you're facing whispering the answer in your ear is basically a cheat code.”
- Shane Parrish
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Kingsley
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Kingsley
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
- Nora Ephron
- Nora Ephron
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
- Nora Ephron
- Nora Ephron
"When you fall in love with the process rather than the outcome, you don't have to wait to be happy."
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"When you fall in love with the process rather than the outcome, you don't have to wait to be happy."
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
"You have to run your own race. Problems begin the moment you start comparing your results to someone who is playing under different conditions.
Play your own game. Emphasize gradual progress and keep the comparison internal. Are you getting a little better [each day]?"
- James Clear
Play your own game. Emphasize gradual progress and keep the comparison internal. Are you getting a little better [each day]?"
- James Clear
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"You have to run your own race. Problems begin the moment you start comparing your results to someone who is playing under different conditions.
Play your own game. Emphasize gradual progress and keep the comparison internal. Are you getting a little better [each day]?"
- James Clear
Play your own game. Emphasize gradual progress and keep the comparison internal. Are you getting a little better [each day]?"
- James Clear
"Human despair is no longer primarily a result of economic destitution; rather, it is due to a lack of functional and healthy communities."
- Chris Arnade
- Chris Arnade
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"Human despair is no longer primarily a result of economic destitution; rather, it is due to a lack of functional and healthy communities."
- Chris Arnade
- Chris Arnade
“Let’s keep in mind that there is not one of us whose reputation would not be grievously dimmed by a thorough cataloguing of our faults and errors.”
- Carl Braun
- Carl Braun
October 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“Let’s keep in mind that there is not one of us whose reputation would not be grievously dimmed by a thorough cataloguing of our faults and errors.”
- Carl Braun
- Carl Braun
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”
- Heinrich Heine
- Heinrich Heine
October 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”
- Heinrich Heine
- Heinrich Heine
“You can do a few things well. You can't do everything well. If you keep scattering your attention across seven different priorities, you'll keep making mistakes that your rested and thoughtful mind would never make.”
- James Clear
- James Clear
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“You can do a few things well. You can't do everything well. If you keep scattering your attention across seven different priorities, you'll keep making mistakes that your rested and thoughtful mind would never make.”
- James Clear
- James Clear
“Stop treating Future You like they have unlimited capacity to deal with everything Present You doesn't want to handle. Either do the thing now, find a different way to get it done, or admit you're not going to do it and let it go.”
- Justin Welsh
🔗 www.justinwelsh.me/newsletter/f...
- Justin Welsh
🔗 www.justinwelsh.me/newsletter/f...
“Future You” isn't coming to save you. | Justin Welsh
Why we defer hard decisions and the compounding cost of waiting. (Plus the framework I use to stop procrastinating on what matters).
www.justinwelsh.me
October 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Stop treating Future You like they have unlimited capacity to deal with everything Present You doesn't want to handle. Either do the thing now, find a different way to get it done, or admit you're not going to do it and let it go.”
- Justin Welsh
🔗 www.justinwelsh.me/newsletter/f...
- Justin Welsh
🔗 www.justinwelsh.me/newsletter/f...
“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”
- Nassim Taleb
- Nassim Taleb
October 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”
- Nassim Taleb
- Nassim Taleb
“The only new thing in the world is the history you do not know.”
- Harry Truman
- Harry Truman
September 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“The only new thing in the world is the history you do not know.”
- Harry Truman
- Harry Truman
"Writing down your goals is easy. Everybody wants the glamorous result. What really matters is whether you want the costs associated with it: the money, the time, the tradeoffs.
Don't merely ask yourself what do I want to achieve, but also what am I willing to pay?"
- James Clear
Don't merely ask yourself what do I want to achieve, but also what am I willing to pay?"
- James Clear
September 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Writing down your goals is easy. Everybody wants the glamorous result. What really matters is whether you want the costs associated with it: the money, the time, the tradeoffs.
Don't merely ask yourself what do I want to achieve, but also what am I willing to pay?"
- James Clear
Don't merely ask yourself what do I want to achieve, but also what am I willing to pay?"
- James Clear
"When determining the size or complexity of a new habit ask yourself: What can I stick to — even on my worst day?
Start there. Master the art of showing up. Then advance."
- James Clear
Start there. Master the art of showing up. Then advance."
- James Clear
September 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"When determining the size or complexity of a new habit ask yourself: What can I stick to — even on my worst day?
Start there. Master the art of showing up. Then advance."
- James Clear
Start there. Master the art of showing up. Then advance."
- James Clear
“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act, we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably in thought and act.”
- Dr. Orison Swett Marden
- Dr. Orison Swett Marden
September 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act, we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably in thought and act.”
- Dr. Orison Swett Marden
- Dr. Orison Swett Marden
“Most arguments are ego competitions disguised as truth-seeking.
Learning to say ‘you're probably right’ will save you a lot of time and energy.”
- Shane Parrish
Learning to say ‘you're probably right’ will save you a lot of time and energy.”
- Shane Parrish
September 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Most arguments are ego competitions disguised as truth-seeking.
Learning to say ‘you're probably right’ will save you a lot of time and energy.”
- Shane Parrish
Learning to say ‘you're probably right’ will save you a lot of time and energy.”
- Shane Parrish
“Progress is not only about how hard you work, but also about where you decide to work.
Where is your energy better spent right now: pushing harder or planting yourself in better ground?”
- James Clear
Where is your energy better spent right now: pushing harder or planting yourself in better ground?”
- James Clear
September 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“Progress is not only about how hard you work, but also about where you decide to work.
Where is your energy better spent right now: pushing harder or planting yourself in better ground?”
- James Clear
Where is your energy better spent right now: pushing harder or planting yourself in better ground?”
- James Clear
“What we see in people is determined, in large part, by what we expect to find.”
- Paul Smith
- Paul Smith
September 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“What we see in people is determined, in large part, by what we expect to find.”
- Paul Smith
- Paul Smith