A contrarian doesn’t always object
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago I shared about “The Tricycle of High Agency“. One of the wheels of the tricycle was called “disagreeability”, which led to…
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Burning the Library of Alexandria to the ground
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe rapid decline in the quality of Google search has been both frustrating and sad. They did a rather good job for about 25 years,…
The Sunday Summary: Happiness, information digestion, and the Meta Quest 3
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful! Blog posts from the past…
Your beliefs shouldn’t come in packages
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt can be easy to lump our beliefs into a nice package. For example, if you’re a Christian than it’s more likely (though certainly not…
Take time to digest information
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re flooded with more and more information every day, and it doesn’t seem that it’ll be slowing down. However, similar to food, taking time to…
He wanted to be home for dinner
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFollowing in the footsteps of those that have gone before us can be a wise thing, but it’s important to see where those footsteps lead….
You don’t always have to try so hard
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a well-established pizza place near us that we just love called Labella’s. They’re very old school, but they make an awesome pizza. When…
Use 10% of your slides
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are a lot of ways to create bad presentations, but the way to improve them is almost always the same. Use less. The book…
Building the skill of happiness
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier this year I shared how I love when people have the ability to have a good day. It’s not that every day is good,…
The Sunday Summary: Doing the next right thing, being a high agency person, and the ruthless elimination of hurry
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful! Blog posts from the past…
The Tricycle of High Agency
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently read a fantastic article called “High Agency in 30 Minutes“, which was a pretty deep dive into the idea of agency in humans….
Reread that book
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile I read quite a few books in any given year, I almost never reread old books. It’s a tricky idea, as I can see…
There is no reason for anything, only reasons
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a recent episode of the 2Bobs podcast, host Blair Enns was talking about how businesses fail. In his view, they never fail for a…
The next right thing
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently read the book “Smart Brevity“, which shares ways to make your communication more succinct and impactful, and I encourage you to give it…
Quick to forward but slow to consider
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe current state of social media is making many things worse. I shared a few years ago how the tendency to share screenshots instead of…
How do they do it all?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are a variety of people out there that seem to be able to do it all, and do it very well. Michael Caldwell is…
The Sunday Summary: A new format with even more great info for you
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m changing up the format of these Sunday posts a bit, and I hope you find them helpful. Let me know what you think! Blog…
Break text free
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe world of text is in an interesting place. Books are more accessible than ever (in terms of availability and format), yet most of our…
Notes ARE my thinking process
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile I’ve been playing around with a few different note-taking tools over the past year, I’ve decided to just settle into Obsidian largely for the…
Last touch attribution will lie to you
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the world of marketing, “last touch attribution” is very popular. It essentially says that no matter what a potential customer does before they find…