Reading books is hard. In order to extract every ounce of knowledge, you need to do an initial skim of the book, then go back and read all of the headings and graphs, then actually read the book. While reading, you have to take notes and highlight the important nuggets
What is failure? Failure is defined as “lack of success” per Merriam Webster. The peculiar thing about failure is that we can rig the game to always win. You get to define success. Most people don’t take the time to do that, however. Many follow society’s traditional definitions
If you know anything about me, you know that I’m always talking about new business ideas. I have a love of entrepreneurship, and just a touch of shiny object syndrome. That culminates in me being a wantreprenuer. I have good ideas, and the will to bring them into existence,
Yesterday I posted a blog right at the end of the day, only taking a couple of minutes to compose it before bed. I wasn’t really happy with it. It’s unstructured, brief, and not helpful. But that’s okay. Showing up and sticking with your habits and commitments
It’s a cliche, but sometimes it can be pretty true. I know I come from a place of privilege: middle class, good income, and roof over my head. However, at a certain point of the hierarchy of needs, chasing money doesn’t bring you any additional happiness. It’s
One of the foundational books of startup culture is The Startup Way by Eric Ries. This book taught me a lot about creating a lean business and how to test ideas with minimal overhead. You may have heard about MVPs (Minimum Viable Product) which Ries helped popularize. In this book,
Why do blog posts have to be long? Why are your systems set up the way they are? Why do you do the things you do? What’s the purpose? Great changes and innovations come from great questions.
If you’re anything like me, you frequently find yourself scrolling Twitter, Medium, and Reddit trying to find the right piece of content to help you through the unknown feelings you’re dealing with. Maybe the next few posts will have something to motivate you. Maybe you’ll find that
Today I watched a video of a self-development Youtuber announcing his course. In there, he states: “We’ve been beta testing a 3 step productivity system, and we’ve been running loads and loads of beta testers through the system. This 3 step system is something that we’ve discovered
Instead of writing a post, I just spent a few minutes tweaking the link structure of the posts on my website. I didn’t really feel like starting on a post yet, so I started making a little bit of progress on a related item. It got me into the
Throughout our lives, especially in school, it’s usually not good enough to just do the bare minimum to pass. Except the whole point of doing the bare minimum is that good enough to get by. I’m not really one to talk, as I was a try hard in
I’m not sure who you are, but chances are, if you’ve clicked on this article, you probably need a break. Guess what? That’s okay. If we continually force ourselves to be at peak efficiency, we’re going to burn out and start to resent the process. Great
A lot of things in life are situational. The more I exist, the more I learn the importance of taking 2 completely contradicting ideas and figuring out how to apply them to a certain situation. I feel this way with “Eating the Frog” or doing the most difficult task first
Let’s say you want to climb a mountain. You go out to a mountain range and start walking. You don’t have a map of the mountains, and you don’t know which mountain it is you want to climb. It could be a pretty nice journey, and for
There’s no such thing as a shortcut to success. Sure there’s optimizations you can make along the way, productivity you can improve, efficiencies to be made. You can automate the repetitive work, and outsource what you don’t want to do. However, when it comes to the work
If you’re like me, then you’ve read just about every productivity hack article out there. Everything from telling you to wake up at 5 am to only work 2 hours per day. They tell you what productivity app to use, whether it be Notion, Todoist, Roam, or Evernote.