How To Live With Purpose and Stay Out of Jail
Frederick Herzberg has the kind of name you would assume belongs to a great scientist, psychologist or philosopher without me
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18: Empathy in the digital public sphere
We've become servants to the news cycle and are separated by chasms of partisanship, but with empathy and a form of communicative rationality, we can progress as a better-informed society.
17: Managing your cognitive bandwidth
I’ve been thinking about the paradox of choice and optimizing our ability to handle tasks through better decision-making.
16: 100,000 Steps For Change
I'm taking 100,000 steps in 24 hours for charity. That's about 81km or 50 miles. It will take 18-20 hours. I am not a runner or performance athlete. I don’t even remember the last time I jogged.
15: The long road to Essentialism
Essentialism exposes my frequent stumbling blocks—taking on too much, underestimating completion times, and letting the cumulative chaos eat into more precious areas of my life.
14: Dig your well before you're thirsty
You should prepare in advance whatever tools, skills or resources you will need later in life. Later could be tomorrow or years from now, but you'll be better adapted to capitalize on opportunities!
13: How to get away with being Black (An update)
This week I'm republishing and adding commentary to a race-related piece that was taken down after some tweets of mine went viral. It's important right now. TW.
12: Focus on cultivating discipline
Discipline is notoriously hard to cultivate. Fried plantain won't eat itself and I can binge Netflix shows like they’re shutting the website down tomorrow. But discipline is achievable!
11: Productivity and the motivation myth
I want to challenge your conception of motivation and point out why it's a poor fuel for productivity. Also, we need to stop pretending broccoli is delicious.
