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
Creating Who’s going to take responsibility? With opportunity comes responsibility. You can’t have the benefits of opportunity without the efforts of responsibility. The internet has given you the opportunity to create things at little to
Getting Started Suck at something new Dave and I had an idea once. We were driving down to the beach. On the way, we stopped by waterfall with the rope swing. I was supposed to be
Life and Living Over too soon You never know when it’s going to happen. Justin told me about his parents going for a walk down the street. They’d done the walk hundreds, thousands of
Stories Inspiration close to home Ran into Jack today. He’s a couple of years younger than me. And he’s getting after it. He told me what he’s working on. Trying to combine
Life and Living All advice adds to 0 For every person telling you to go left, there’ll be an equal amount telling you to go right. Thinking about this, you might start to believe the best way
Conversation 3pm or 4pm? Still or sparking? The way a question is phrased contains information. A waiter asks “still or sparkling?”, because it reduces the number of decisions you have to make. You have to put some
Life and Living Your own best company Emotions get amplified with others. People act differently in groups than on their own. Some people can’t exist without being around people. I flip back and forth. I go
Food The 3 most potent tools for improving your health (food, exercise & sleep) Diabetes numbers, obesity numbers, mental health issues, they’re all increasing or at some level which they shouldn’t be. Chances are you know someone who’s overweight, has diabetes
Marketing Does this plane have Wi-Fi? It’s easy to get caught up in things which seem important on the surface. But dig a little deeper and you'll find out, they take up almost 0% of
Stories I think you just like the challenge She was right. We’d been texting back and forth. We’d never work out, I said, we’re too stubborn, too uncompromising. It started when I asked her how
Creating Make your income separate from your real thing A real way to stress test your side project, your real thing, the thing you work on and it doesn’t seem like work is to make an income separate
Life and Living Have you got scars? Life is all about risk taking. All about the outliers. All about having skin in the game. People relate to other people having scars. Superman requires Clark Kent to make
Getting Started “I’m not sure where to start” We were sitting at the dinner table and my little brother, Sam, starts speaking. He says he’s not sure where to start. Then he keeps going. “I’m not
Life and Living You’re weird A previous girlfriend of mine once said to me, “what you’re doing is weird.” She was talking about my absence from social media, no Facebook, no Instagram etc. I’
Stories The man on the boat The sun was setting and it was one of those ones where it’s so beautiful it’d be rude to look away. I was walking along the beach saying
Thinking Two opposing thoughts How well would a barbell work if you only put weights on one end? Try and perform a deadlift and you’d be strained to one side. Keep doing it
