Questioning Assumptions: Why It's Often A Good Idea Examining your assumptions is always useful because it forces you to examine the context you’re (subconsciously) imposing on the situation. The act of examining your underlying assumptions is a very...
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Time management Time management is a misnomer. You can’t really manage time because there is a finite number of hours in each day. Every one of us is subject to the same time constraints. So so you can’t really manage time given the fact you can’t co...
The wonder of childhood Do you remember your earlier years? When things were magical? When the world was wonderous? When you were a fountain of new ideas. When each day felt like another breakthrough? Chances are you weren’t consuming a lot of inform...
Travel-free vacation The world has transformed over the last 10 years. Steve Jobs was determined to make a ‘dent in the universe’ and the introduction of the iPhone (followed by other similar smartphones) was an inflection point in our lives. While i...
The safety that comes with good intention Entrepreneurship is fraught with risk. Bootstrapping is hard financially and emotionally. But when you act with good intentions that are very clear to your stakeholders (especially your customers) you mitigat...
Intermittent fasting and information diets I’ve been experimenting with intermittent fasting lately. The first five days were a genuine struggle, but then things got easier. The hunger dissipated, and my body found its new normal. Having pushed throu...
Just Begin For quite a long time now I’ve been thinking of writing daily. But I found many reasons to avoid it. Here are a few that come to mind: My subscribers won’t want to hear from me every single day I won’t be able to create content that’s comp...
Have you heard the phrase “There are no guarantees in life?” It’s nonsense! If you’re a living being (which I assume you are, since you’re reading this) two things are most certainly guaranteed! 1. Change. 2. Death. Sounds morbid, I know. But there i...
Have you ever felt like you really wanted to make a difference to the world? You have all these ideas. And you just know that you were put on this earth to bring them to life. You know that this is your true calling. You feel these ideas straining to...
It’s funny how breakthroughs in productivity come from the most unlikely turn of events. Several years ago I broke a finger. And I found myself struggling to use the mouse at work. Navigating around the computer screen was painfully slow (pun intende...