Reading Time: < 1 min Your brain will never be “full”. It might feel like it sometimes, but that’s not the case. In fact, it’s largely the opposite; as you learn more, your capacity to learn expands as well. In his book “Moonwalking With Einstein“, author Joshua Foer shares a few insights along those lines. The first is about your […]
Be unweary
Reading Time: < 1 min This Thanksgiving, I hope you take some time to become unweary of the wonders in your life. Whether that is friends, family, food, or football, they’re all amazing things that we’re blessed to have. Take time today to also be thankful for the other wonders you have. Just reading this post means you have a […]
Areas to wish to be ignorant
Reading Time: < 1 min I recently saw a quote that got me thinking, but I haven’t figured out where to take it yet. It’s attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and he said: There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. I can see it going a few ways. Evil Knowing about the hardships […]
Business isn’t a zero-sum game
Reading Time: < 1 min In some areas of life, particular sports, the results are zero-sum; for one team to win, another has to lose. Every year, some team makes it to the Super Bowl and loses, but that’s the only way to make winning possible for the other team. Beyond sports, though, most of life and business isn’t zero-sum. […]
From Twitter to Mastodon?
Reading Time: 2 min While the Elon Musk + Twitter situation seems to get stranger by the day, many people are moving over to Mastodon instead. Whether it sticks or not remains to be seen, but it has potential to be a great solution. At it’s core, Mastodon is a decentralized social network that feels a lot like Twitter. […]
You aren’t rewarded for your effort
Reading Time: < 1 min If you’re five years old and you spend a few hours hand-making a Christmas present for your mom, she’ll appreciate it simply due to the effort that you put into it. The same can be true when it comes to fitness, where your effort directly affects your outcome. When it comes to business, though, effort […]
The power of Supertags in Tana
Reading Time: < 1 min I briefly mentioned Tana last month, which is a new note-taking app that I’m playing with. I’m finding it to be a very powerful tool, but their “Supertags” feature might be the best part. Rather than try to explain it to you, here is a short video that I created to show how it works: […]
Remember more, or choose to forget?
Reading Time: 2 min I talk a lot on here about efforts to improve my memory by using tools like Anki. I believe that knowing some things by heart is important. On the other hand, I have an extensive notes database that I constantly manicure (currently in Tana) so that I have a record of things that I want […]
Social Networking versus Social Media
Reading Time: 2 min In conversations that I have, I tend to mix the terms “social networking” and “social media”. According to Ian Bogost of The Atlantic, I probably shouldn’t. With all of the recent chaos on Twitter, Bogost spent some time in a recent article to unpack those two words, and how our shift from Social Networking –> […]
I should probably know that
Reading Time: < 1 min I wrote a few years ago about my fear of unknown gaps in my knowledge, and why that means I’d likely shy away from any opportunity to be on a game show. I think I’d likely perform fairly well, depending on the show, but there’s a chance I would miss an easy question and would […]