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
Learning You only remember the things you learn yourself All the things in school. Most of the things in university. That class on public health policy. They’re all gone. The thing they have in common is they’re
Stories Curious about the world Jack’s here. He’s 10. He reminds me of me. Hanging around with the older people, asking them questions, seeing how things are done. I’m a few years
Writing Every day for a year When you make it visual, you’ve got no choice. You can see it. It’s right there. You know if you miss it, the chain will break. It’s
Life and Living Long gamma I learned a new phrase today. Long gamma. It’s from the book Antifragile (you should read it). It was used in the quote, “Life is long gamma.” In non-jargon
What could you take away? The New Year is coming up. You might’ve given someone something recently. Or maybe even received a gift from someone. It's the season of giving. And it’s around
An offer you can’t refuse A sucker doesn’t listen to what his customers doesn’t have to say. A non-sucker listens, hears them out, offers their point of view and acts. A sucker doesn’
Thinking Avoid being a donkey (but also be a donkey) There’s a story I’ve heard a few times and each time I read or hear it, I think, I should remember this. It begins with a donkey who’
The spatula that doesn’t reach There’s a spatula here attached to the wall. It’s for cleaning the barbecues. Except when you go to use it, it doesn’t reach all the way to
Analysis paralysis When you’re stuck thinking about something too much rather than acting upon it. I get it. It happens to me. The thought of the outcome holds back the process.
Creating Hits and misses Dave and I were sitting at the cafe the other day. Talking about the cadence of putting out work. Social media makes it look like something needs to come out
