{"id":15215,"date":"2021-08-08T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15215"},"modified":"2021-08-04T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:57:22","slug":"what-do-you-want-ten-times-more-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/08\/what-do-you-want-ten-times-more-of\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What do you want ten times more of?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This simple but excellent question was put to me once by Merlin Mann. I&#8217;ve reflected on it many times over the years, and I&#8217;d ask it of promising candidates in job interviews. I&#8217;m asking myself now, as I mark one more revolution around the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people say &#8220;Money.&#8221; Okay, sure&#8230; but why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others say &#8220;Time.&#8221; That&#8217;s maybe closer to my heart\u2014but again, to what end? What are you\/we doing with the time we have now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me the answer has always been &#8220;Impact.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know whether that&#8217;s &#8220;right&#8221; (if such a thing exists), but it captures my eternal desire to make a positive dent in the universe, as Steve Jobs would put it. I want to leave things better than I found them\u2014happier, more beautiful, more fun\u2014for my family, friends, and the creative world at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe better answers exist\u2014Love, Courage, Wisdom; I want them all in great abundance. From those things would flow impact &amp; all other goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I dunno; how about you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/imp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"509\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/imp.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/imp.jpg 630w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/imp-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple but excellent question was put to me once by Merlin Mann. I&#8217;ve reflected on it many times over the years, and I&#8217;d ask it of promising candidates in job interviews. I&#8217;m asking myself now, as I mark one more revolution around the Sun. Some people say &#8220;Money.&#8221; Okay, sure&#8230; but why? Others say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15223,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15215\/revisions\/15223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}