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# This Week - May 10, 2013
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2013-05-10/
- Published: 2013-05-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:11:07.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, david foster wallace, nathan jurgenson, sash mackinnon, this week, video, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> If there is one lesson I took away from the experience, it is not to “live life to the fullest” or “have no regrets”. It is to feel lucky. Feeling lucky means you are appreciating the things in your life that sometimes go unnoticed. It means you are achieving more than think you deserve. Feeling lucky requires a certain humility we often lose sight of.  
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> — [Sash MacKinnon](http://sashmackinnon.com/what-its-like-to-die?ref=drewshannon.net)

> Should we be in the business of ranking whose experience gets to count as such? Or which is more valuable, worthy, creative? And who gets to be such an arbiter?  
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> — [Nathan Jurgenson](http://nathanjurgenson.tumblr.com/post/49945534511/stop-saying-phones-mean-not-living-in-the-moment?ref=drewshannon.net)

The late David Foster Wallace's great speech "[This Is Water](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player%5Fembedded&v=xmpYnxlEh0c&ref=drewshannon.net)"

> 'You've gotta keep control of your time,' Buffett says, 'and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.'  
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> — [Fast Company](http://www.fastcompany.com/3009536/leadership-now/why-productive-people-have-empty-schedules?ref=drewshannon.net)