50: King of the Game 馃憫
This week I'm sharing notes from my journal on how Lebron James navigates life games, and how we can do the same in life and work. It's a follow up to last week's newsletter.
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49: Know the Game 鈾燂笍
On some level, everything in life is a game. That doesn't mean all games are trivial. It does mean you should look for ways to level up, ways to collaborate, ways to win, and ways to ensure you can live to play another day.
48: Death of a Cartographer 馃寠
What if I told you that nearly every island in Polynesia was discovered without maps or compasses by men in canoes who navigated by the stars?
47: Change, travel, and other things
I was travelling again this past week. I left my cold, windy island for the first time this year and
46: Planning for Obsolescence
How companies conspire to make you consume more, and how you can turn obsolescence into a mechanism for productivity.
45: A guide for better gifts
How to give the best gifts to your past, present and future selves.
44: What you feel in your bones
A note from my journal on conviction and mimesis.
43: Searching for easy answers
Pattern-matching and robust thinking are more important than tactics and abstraction.
42: How to fail exquisitely
How to give the best gifts to your past, present and future selves.
41: The quest for white space
Finding clarity in the gap between objects of focus.
40: Rage against the machine
We're failing to design equitable systems. Will machines be better or worse?
39: A stitch in time
Anticipatory measures, sunk costs, and the endowment effect.
