Here's why that productivity hack you read about may not be working for you, and what to do about it. Machine-learning for humans On a fundamental level, your body is a machine. This is something we’re often cognizant of but easily forget, particularly where emotions are involved....
Some of you clicked this email because it mentioned stealing. Some of you came because it mentioned the Bible. And the wisest among you clicked because you open all my emails anway. All of you are correct. What you're about to read is no attempt to convert you...
Someone recently shared the article The Five Regrets of the Dying , citing that the number two regret of the dying is working too much. There is an unspoken hierarchy in our society about what is valuable; higher on that hierarchy are career success, fame, and wealth. Lower on the list...
You should relish missing out on the non-essential, or the Joy Of Missing Out (JOMO). I took note of an idea from Humble the Poet a few years ago in an interview where he suggested measuring success by the opportunities we get rather than the ones that yield result. Take...
There’s a nifty little book that I turn to often. Honestly, it’s tiny. It upturned the idiom “time is money” for me by forcing me to consider the intrinsic value of time. How to live on 24 hours a day by Arnold Bennett. The supply of time is...
Here's a paradigm shift for you: Less means more while more often means mediocre. There are times where this works in your favour: when ideating and experimenting, speed and incremental development are key. You can often develop better over time by doing more, faster, than by 'boiling...
