Reading Time: < 1 min In the book, Thanks for the Feedback, author Douglas Stone poses the following question: When we say “accept me as I am”, are we really just asking for immunity from critique? More often than not, I think the answer is a clear “yes”. We certainly should try to view others through that lens, and accept […]
100 days of blogging
Reading Time: < 1 min With this post, I’ve gone 100 days in a row with a blog post. My last run at this (starting back in December of 2016) lasted around 50 days. As I mentioned early on, I tried to shift my mindset from talking about stuff to talking about ideas, in the hopes that it wouldn’t run […]
Masks are shopping carts
Reading Time: 2 min A popular meme has been going around called “the shopping cart theory”, related to what it means to put the shopping cart back in a corral versus leaving in the middle of the parking lot. It looks like this: Putting away a shopping cart is an easy, convenient task. Most people recognize it as the […]
Escape into brain.fm
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve been trying to read more over the past year, and for the most part have been pretty successful. Much of that is due to simply making it a higher priority, but some tools have helped along the way — a big one is brain.fm. The app is essentially just specially-created music that you listen […]
Who is “the media”?
Reading Time: 2 min We hear quite a lot about “the media” leaning to one side, or the “the media” not promoting a particular event, but who exactly is “the media”? Increasingly, it’s us. This is media. This post can be found in Google, or perhaps you found it via a social media channel. It’s media as much as […]
We have to do something about it
Reading Time: 2 min Over the past few weeks, the stock market has been in a bit of a frenzy over the mess with GameStop. If you’re not familiar with what’s been going on, this is a good overview. The problem I’m seeing is a lot of people suggesting “we need to do something“. While perhaps things need to […]
Don’t start tomorrow
Reading Time: < 1 min If you’re thinking of starting a blog, or writing a book, or exercising, or anything else, a good time to start would be tomorrow. A better time to start would be today. In his book The War of Art, author Steven Pressfield says: We don’t tell ourselves, “I’m never going to write my symphony.” Instead […]
What holes do I have in my knowledge?
Reading Time: < 1 min The idea of being on a game show scares me. In general, I think I could do pretty well on many of them, but I fear missing an easy question that “everyone” knows. A great example is this poor guy on Wheel of Fortune years ago. He seems to be a sharp guy, but somehow […]
Needless artificial constraints
Reading Time: 2 min Constraints on your work can be a good thing. In The Practice, Seth Godin devotes an entire section to them. Among other examples, he cites Susan Kare’s work on the original Macintosh and the amazing icons she created while under a 32×32 pixel constraint. However, there are times when constraints seem arbitrary and unnecessary, a […]
Highlighting a physical book
Reading Time: 2 min When I’m reading, probably about 99% of the books I read are on Kindle. It’s simple, efficient, and makes highlighting super easy. Not only can I highlight on Kindle with a few taps, but I can easily grab them all from the Kindle website to pull into Roam Research (kind of like I describe here). […]