Category Archives: Daily Posts

So don’t use that fact as an excuse to not do the exciting things. If you don’t put the responsibilities to the side occasionally you’ll die having done nothing interesting. Don’t put off the fun until retirement. Have fun now. ^Day 222/90 51 wordsMore

Last night I had worked all day, putting in a total of 8 hours of clocked in time, which means more like 12 hours of at desk time. I had an hour until the time I wanted to sleep and figured I’d watch an episode of Season 2 of Amazon’s The Man in the High…More

Its a common objection to the all the work that goes into being healthy. The calorie counting, diet watching, non-sugar eating, exercising just isn’t worth it. Even if you live a perfectly healthy life you will only extend your life by a decade or two max. Its true. But, there are two things that make…More

Its easy to dismiss variety. To instead focus on focusing. To attempt to commit to 18 hour days of work on one project. There are plenty of business myths about it as well. Steve Jobs’s relentless focus. Elon Musk’s “You need to work 100 hour weeks”. Banking’s mythical all day and night hours. The problem…More

I’ve experienced this first hand in the past 20 years. In my younger years I was crippled by the inability to focus on something for long unless I was immediately amazing at it. I would start an ambitious project, lets say learning programming or a new language, and would give up when I wasn’t fluent…More

If there is one soul mate for you, then what are the chances that you will actually find that person? There are 7 billion people on this planet. The chances of you “happening” on that person are non-existant. No, instead, a potential partner is someone who you have a lot in common with. Then its…More

Tell them they tried hard. This is especially important with children. If you tell one that they’re so smart when they get something right, how will they feel when they mess something up? They’ll think that they’re stupid. But, if you praise them for trying hard. Then when they mess something up they’ll just try…More

Learning early in life to have fun in the rain helps later in overcoming external obstacles. So don’t say that the weather is “bad”. Say that its raining and be excited about it. Over time even if your parents messed you up you’ll start to realize that external roadblocks are just challenges to be overcome.…More

Its called the “Knowing doing gap”. Or, “The frog in the boiling water problem.” You may know intellectually that you should make a change. That you should leave your SO, that you should quit your job, that you should eat healthier. But, your current path is comfortable. Your current path is how you got to…More

Its hard to know whether you are doing too many things or whether you are not doing enough. There are so many contradictory stories. e.g. AirBnB made a breakfast cereal in 2008 based on the names of the two Presidential candidates. They sold tens of thousands of $s worth and it helped to fund their…More