Projects 42 days: a cure for shiny object syndrome If you had the next 6 weeks to work on whatever you wanted, what would you make?
Decision Making Trust one eye more than two ears 99% of your thought process is dedicated to maintaining your self-conceptions but 98% of them are wrong. This usually trips most people up. Because the lengths people will go to
Decision Making Cook or chemist? A chemist needs things to be exact. Their tools measure down to the smallest unit. It’s in a chemist’s best interest to stick to the recipe. If something
Communication How to Think About Communicating and Sharing Your Work Got technical skills? Good. Here's how you can communicate them.
Money How to make $5000 in 20-minutes If you think the way some rationalists think, you’re not going to like this. Because the way rationalists think is there’s got to be an explainable reason for
Stories The curse of the modern individual Today my first client died. But not before he taught me a valuable lesson. The street was flooding like my mind whilst I was listening in. It’d been raining
Stories My Uber driver gave me a new perspective on Iran Don't let the bad at the top hide the good underneath.
Make No magic pill Drugs, tried them. Sex, had it plenty of times. Working hard towards a goal and finishing it, starting from zero and improving at a skill, buying things, making art, dancing,
Where’s your third place? You’ve got your family, your friends. Those are the first and second places you can go. But where’s your third place? The place you can go and work
Life and Living Getting back to nature: competition and the mistake Nature has created everything you see around you using two tools, competition and the mistake. Despite this, it is common practice to want to try and remove these tools from
Creating The eternal pursuit of unhappiness There’s a disease you might contract. You’ll know when you get it. What is it? It’s not really a disease. It’s an endless pursuit. Which is
Decision Making Precision or applicability? Which one are you going for? Are you trying to be perfect? Trying to be right all the time? Or are you trying to be useful? I’ll say it
YouTube The story in everything Everyone you meet has a story to tell. Behind everything you buy is a series of tales all coming together. Every day you wake up you’re creating your own.
Stories The lady who leaves the flowers I visit the local cafe most days. Every so often, there are groups of flowers on the tables. It brings the whole place alive. What’s usually a group of
Poems Create something every day Why? Because creating takes thought. Not for the views, not for the fame, not for the money, these things have their place. But to expand your soul. To tune into
Life and Living A guest of it all We’re all on tour here. All guests of life. It goes fast but it’s the longest thing you’ll do. The ones who make the most of it
Life and Living Time spent doing nothing is rarely wasted One of the curses of modernity is always having to be doing something. It’s never been easier to stay connected, to consume information, to offer up our attention. However,
Creating Copy until you have your own style When you start your creative work will suck. Why? Because you won’t have your own style yet. And that’s okay. What you can do is copy others until
You don’t have to wait to be picked Being specific means being brave. Saying “I’m going to do this,” takes courage. following through with it takes even more courage. The best thing about choosing to be a
2020 is 5% over More than that. Closer to 7.5% over. Soon enough it’ll be Christmas again. How have your New Years resolutions gone? If you’ve stopped, no troubles. If you've
Life and Living What if you did the exact opposite? (like the rogue bees do) Bees have a dance to indicate to others where food is. It’s called the waggle dance. Great name. But a significant portion of bees in a hive completely ignore
Machine Learning Learning something new? Don't try and boil the ocean Does someone need to know the inner workings of a combustion engine to learn how to drive a car? Of course not. You get in, you realise there’s a
Thinking Thinking for yourself A decade ago I was scared. It was the last year of high-school and teachers were asking “what do you want to do in your life?”. “Lady, I’ve got
