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Be ruthless in discerning what works for you

Now is a time to get deeper in our understanding of what is easeful for us. Be ruthless in discerning what works for you. Separate that which is uncomfortable because it is on your growth edge from that which is not yours to do. Perhaps the ultimate "productivity hack&

Is my blue your blue?

Who knew an Ikea rug would spark such an existential crisis? Ours is a color-block rug, with stripes loud enough for a child’s room, but sophisticated enough for the living room. (We should know — we’ve had the rug in both places. Right now, it’s in the living

Sequencing

I’m a huge fan of Michelle Warner’s Sequence Over Strategy podcast. Her newsletter is great, too. She chooses stories from her own life to illustrate her main points about business design. Doing things in the right order is more important than doing them perfectly. She also emphasizes understanding

Welcome to Workflows Before Rainbows

Today I watched the Steve Jobs Apple iPhone launch video after hearing Nancy Duarte’s TED talk explaining that all great presentations have the same structure: they move back and forth between the current state and the possible future, which helps the listener to make the shift to the future

The caterpillar forgets how to walk

I’ve made things too complicated again. It’s almost like, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, except for online presence. I got this secret blog, but then I wanted a secret digital garden, and then I wanted to redo my website, and then I wanted to restart my

My book is here!

And it’s my second essay collection. My first essay collection, Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here, is sold out and I don’t talk much about it anymore. I’m glad I made it, I was so joyful designing it and getting it printed and connecting with people about

Who invented habit tracking?

An informal continuation of Remember when habits were bad? I’m still surprised that I can’t find much on google regarding how habit tracking was invented. It seems like the kind of thing someone would pitch a deep dive into, especially given how easy it is to find articles