YouTube A simple study break meal to optimize mental performance (eggs and greens) Nutrition and sleep are the force multipliers of life. If you're looking for two ways to improve your learning capabilities as well as your creative performance, these are it. After graduating with a
Life and Living How to be your own mentor Thanks to the internet, I’ve got hundreds of mentors. Most of them don’t know I exist. That’s the beautiful thing about putting your work out there. Even if it doesn’
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu White belt mentality I’ve been doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) for the past year. I’m addicted. I should’ve signed up to a martial art earlier. Aside from the life lessons like learning how to
Fitness 6 Things Training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu For a Year Taught Me About Life I've been doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for the past year. And what I've learned is applicable outside of the gym as much as inside.
Life and Living Rest when you need to rest Work when you need to work. Play when you need to play. Love when you need to love. Eat when you need to eat. Create when you need to create. Get lost when
Creating What can I create today? If there isn't a YouTube video on something, it doesn't exist. And if you can't find what you're looking for on the first page of Google, you'll probably stop looking and find something
Game day baby This is what you've been training for. This is what you've put the hours in for. It's time to show up. It's time to play. It's game day baby. The beautiful thing? Game
Creating Starting is the easy part The professional knows starting is the easy part. They know this because finishing is harder. The amateur starts a list of projects and finishes none. The professional starts a list of projects and
Creating Own your projects Instead of trying to grow at all costs. Instead of trying to build the next biggest thing. Instead of trying to change the world from the beginning. Start with something small. Something sustainable.
Creating Put yourself in their shoes What do they think? What have they done before? Why are they showing up to see what you’ve made? What don’t they know? What should they know? How do you want
Writing If you can't write, you're out Whatever role you're after, whatever message you want to bring to the world, it's worthwhile practising your writing. Communication is what we do. The device you're reading this on has several ways of
Life and Living Running up the stairs That’s what you want to be doing. Sometimes two at a time. When you can’t do two, do one. Sometimes the stairs will be steep, sometimes they’ll be missing, sometimes
Stories A worthwhile investment The late afternoon rolls in and my work gets sloppy. I call it and get changed. I signed up to a new gym down the road. It’s 4-6 minutes walk depending on
Productivity How I became a productivity machine I spend a lot of time thinking about how to spend my time. You might be the same. I’ve tried every system you can imagine. Some worked, some didn’t. It’s
Stories Stick and lick The letters would come in. I’d read some of them. Builders notices. That’s who we worked for. A building company. We’d be in the mail room for hours. One box
Machine Learning Getting your computer ready for machine learning: How, what and why you should use Anaconda, Miniconda and Conda What are Anaconda, Miniconda and Conda? How do you create a Conda environment for machine learning? Why should you use them? This article will show you.
Life and Living Think you're always right? Answering these 4 questions will show you otherwise Your brain is playing a continual trick on you. Every thought you think, your brain believes it's true. This isn't a bad thing. It's efficient. But sometimes it pays to see how quickly
Writing How I became a better writer I practice creativity every day. Like I work my muscles through different movements, I need to work my creativity by making things. This morning it's writing. Every day it's writing. A writer doesn't
Creating Use what works Focus on the content more than the medium. What's the story you're trying to tell? Tell it. I asked Sam, does having a more expensive gi (the karate outfit) make you better at
Creating No explanations That’s rule number 1. When you want to learn something new, when you want to create something new, you’ll hold yourself back. Why? Because that’s what you’re searching for.
Creating No one will be as interested as you The thing you want to work on. Your health. Your side project. The book you’re writing. The movie you’re making. The girl you’re interested in. The boy you’ve got
Life and Living I realised this shit it isn’t a race Coconut sunscreen reminds me of the island we go to every year. I put some on and was taken back. Transported to the beach. Running around on the sand. Feeling the heat. Good
Career Never take me off the tools I heard about the promotions. A friend went up to the next role. He’d been after it for a while. I asked him. How is it? It’s good man. But I’
Career An opportunity to get better I read the criteria and thought, “that’s me.”, so I applied. Turns out. It wasn’t. The person on the other end thought I wasn’t experienced enough. Good. An opportunity to
Creating The creative habit Treat creativity as a habit. If you want to be more creative, practice being more creative. I wanted to get better at writing, so I started writing every day. I wanted to get
