Reading Time: 2 min Writing can be difficult. There are times when you know it needs to be done but you just don’t want to do it (or you don’t have any ideas, or some other excuse). Neil Gaiman, author of dozens of popular books, has an excellent solution that’s served him well. When it’s time to write, he […]
Encouragement
Fewer goals in 2024
Reading Time: 2 min One of the most impactful videos I watched this year was Emmanuel Acho’s TED talk on goal setting, as I shared here. More specifically, it was his talk about not setting as many goals. As I mentioned in that previous post, this is something I’ve done for a while anyhow and it was great to […]
Being fully prepared
Reading Time: 2 min I tend to be pretty good about preparing for the near future — doublechecking itineraries, preparing notes for client calls, things like that. In the grand scheme of things, those are pretty easy to do. On the other side of things, you have the prep that Taylor Swift had to put into her shows and […]
Character is worth more every day
Reading Time: < 1 min The rapid development of AI is likely to lead to a number of things. One side of that will be the glut of content that we’ll need to deal with. With AI, people and companies are going to be churning out more content (whether they need to or not), and that’s mostly going to be […]
Reaching a goal is the penalty you receive for setting one
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve always had a difficult time setting and sticking to goals. I’m great with routine (this blog is a solid example), but I’m not great at setting goals. While I think I still need to improve in that regard, perhaps routines can be a better fit than goals in many cases anyhow. In a podcast […]
Balance doesn’t mean 50/50
Reading Time: < 1 min Us humans are weird. When given two similar choices, we often assume that the odds of each choice is 50/50. That’s true in a lot of cases, like flipping a coin, but it also causes us to struggle to understand variances like in the Monty Hall problem. When it comes to work/life balance, you don’t […]
Tell your story yourself
Reading Time: < 1 min We’re at an amazing point in history where gatekeepers no longer matter. While it can still be beneficial to get your company highlighted in the news (in a positive light, hopefully), that’s not something we all need to chase after. In a recent podcast interview with Gary Vaynerchuk, Danny Meyer (the famous restaurateur featured in […]
The incredible value in some services
Reading Time: 2 min There are a lot of things we purchase that aren’t cheap, but we buy them anyhow. This could include your house, your car, or even your coffee from Starbucks. None of those are a great value, but we consider those expenses to be worthwhile. In thinking through what things cost, though, a few seem very […]
Strive for it anyhow
Reading Time: 2 min There are some things in life that are almost certainly out of reach, but in many cases it can be worth chasing after them anyhow. A great example is guitarist Joe Walsh of the Eagles, with a story that is seemingly true, though admittedly disputed a bit. From a now-defunct Eagles fan site is this […]
We all have the same tools
Reading Time: < 1 min For hundreds of years, your ability to create was dictated by the tools that you had access to. If you couldn’t afford the right tool, some types of creation were just out of your reach. Thankfully, that’s not true any more. Certainly you need to spend a bit of money to get some core tools, […]