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Reading Time: 2 min There are times when I find a short, interesting video that has too many things to notice in one sitting. Here are two fun examples of that; neither is very new, but they’re both very entertaining. Softball In this video, the team at bat is in the final inning, two outs, down by two. They […]

Reading Time: 2 min As you go through your day, various ideas pop into your head. If they’re solid, holding onto them doesn’t do you any good. Get them out of your head as soon as you can, for two reasons: First, it’s a waste of head space to hold onto them. Toss your ideas into your disposable notes […]

Reading Time: < 1 min The internet has done so much good for almost all of us, but one bad thing it’s done is that it’s taken away our boredom. Years ago, there were times when there was just literally nothing to do. That could be annoying, and it frequently was, but that also can lead to great insights. In […]

Reading Time: 2 min Every January first (well, starting last year) I like to look at some numbers and stats from the previous year. Content This year I wrote exactly 365 posts — one per day. I had my doubts about whether I could do it or not, but I’ve stayed solid on that. I cleaned out a lot […]

Reading Time: < 1 min If you celebrate Christmas, I wish you a wonderful day full of presents and friends. If you don’t celebrate Christmas, I wish you an excellent day of quiet and rest. Our body and mind tend to recharge when unplugged (the opposite of our devices), so may all of your batteries be full today.

Reading Time: 2 min What’s the best decision you ever made? Not the one with the best outcome, necessarily, but the decision that you felt strongest about. As Annie Duke recently shared on this episode of Maya Shankar’s “A Slight Change of Plans” podcast, decisions and outcomes are two different things. I shared a similar thought from Annie about […]

Reading Time: < 1 min In Mark Richt’s book “Make The Call“, which chronicles his college football coaching career, he included a section warning us not to become “weary of wonders”. He said: So I kind of like how author G. K. Chesterton said it, a British writer of the twentieth century. He talked of how we become “weary of […]

Reading Time: < 1 min It’s human nature to focus on things that go poorly. If there are two lines at the grocery store, of course you picked the slow one, as always. It’s not always like that, it’s just that you don’t really remember the times when your line moved quickly. On Thanksgiving day, I had to drive roughly […]

Reading Time: 2 min If given the choice, most people would say that they’d like to have more money. But why do they want that? Really why? In thinking about this, it reminds me of Theodore Levitt’s thought that “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole.“ Really, they don’t want a quarter-inch […]

Reading Time: < 1 min Last year, Steven Levitt (best known for his book Freakonomics) conducted an interesting test. He set up a website for people that were considering making a major change in their life, such as quitting a job or ending a relationship, and the website flipped a coin for them — heads they make the change, tails […]