Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Paul Graham said
ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.
Mental modelCompounding
Morale compounds via work: high morale helps you do good work, which increases your morale and helps you do even better work. But this cycle also operates in the other direction: if you're not doing good work, that can demoralize you and make it even harder to.
Where this was said
↗How to Do Great Workpaulgraham.com
All 13 korrents from this piecethis one is 6th
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