Monthly Archives: June 2009

Satisfaction

Outliers, Malcom Gladwell, p149: Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Too late

All names have been changed, Claire Kilroy, p44: I would describe my state at that moment as borderline murderous. I had left it too late, you see; I saw. The years spent cherishing the aspiration to be a writer had wrapped it up and sealed it off, rendering it as discrete and inaccessible to the […]