Roufurd Julie @roufurd
Proudly South African Engineer involved with building the MeerKAT and SKA radio telescopes. Practicing Goju Ryu Karateka. Hobbyist blog. capetweaker.co.za Cape Town Joined October 2009-
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Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. Credit: David Rogers
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"What would this look like if it were easy?" is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It’s easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you’re not redlining, you’re not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often…
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The cost of distraction is the person you could’ve become. If you suffer from distraction, read this. My Deep Work routine:
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I make $30,000/month selling digital products. I started 3 years ago with $0. Here's my 10-step framework to make money online:
FOCUS PROTOCOL If you are having trouble focusing Narrow your visual attention Focus on a spot in front of you For 60-90 seconds Then get back to work This deploys neurochemicals that increase levels of alertness and arousal
The habit responsible for most good things in my life: Blocking out one hour a morning to build a new project aligned with my ideal future. When the project is done, start the next. This provides purpose, experience, and results that get better year after year.
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
This is brutally honest advice to my younger, less confident self.