good food for thought as usual from sacha

great list of questions to improve listening and communication

has "follow your passion" type advice, but otherwise good

always enjoy reading sacha's thinking: "It’s okay to turn things down, because I know I’ll use the time well."

ryan nails it again

incredibly productive and inspirational software engineer and UX guy

brilliant and long exposition on designing interfaces and presenting information in the context of computers

"It is not about managing research, it is about how you individually do your research. I could give a talk on the other subject - but it's not, it's about you. I'm not talking about ordinary run-of-the-mill research; I'm talking about great research. "

Try to do things that would make your friends say wow.
"Always produce" is also a heuristic for finding the work you love.