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 the waggle dance and venture off on their own accord. Scientists studied this and were perplexed as to why. It
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 wheel, two or three pedals, a gear stick which you set to D (for drive) and then a collection of
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 no idea, I wake up, get dressed, come to school, listen, try to pass the exams, think about playing
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 no costs. Writing is basically free. But it’s your responsibility to sit down and get the words out. A
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 doing university work and Dave was supposed to be working at the bank but we couldn’t care. Adventure awaited.
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 times over the years. It was their nightly ritual. A short stroll down through the village before bed. Except this
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 his love for cars and business to make a living. He’s not there yet though. But he told me
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 to give advice to someone is to say, “I don’t know.” That’s one option. It’s the easy
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 effort in to say “tap is fine”. When someone offers to meet you tomorrow afternoon, and they ask “3pm or
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 from needing to be around someone to wanting nothing else but to sit here and write down my thoughts. You’
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 or some kind of mental health issue. Of course, there’s a plethora of medications for these conditions but why
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 the average users brain. Imagine a conversation in a major airline executive meeting where the contest is between
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 her night went. You mean the one 6-months ago? I hand’t replied in 6-months. Yeah. It’s amazing 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 to it. The test is to show whether or not you’d actually keep going with it despite having no
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 him relatable. If he continued being invincible, no one would be able to relate. That’s what you need to
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 sure where to start, so I’m just making whatever I can think of.” I tell him. “That’s the
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’d tapped out of them all. I realised the facade I was putting on. All the things I’d share
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 to myself I’ll keep walking until it sets and then I’ll turn around. Out on the water was
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 like this and your spine won’t be your friend for much longer. The better way to do it is
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 not the things I was trying to learn myself. They were there. They were things which were going to be
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 older now but I still remember what it was like when I was 10. I know how Jack feels. You’
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 about to be a new year. And that’s exciting. Maybe tomorrow is a good day to start something. Something
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 terms, “long” means “benefits from” and “gamma” means nonlinearity. In other words, “long gamma” means “benefits from volatility and variability”
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 this time, New Years resolutions start being formulated. This year, I’d like to... • Lose weight • Stop eating
