Four Mistakes to Avoid When Building an Online Community
“Your goal should be for a ‘network effect’ to take hold in your community. The value of your product should increase exponentially with each user, and this usu...
Author: EBenedict
Attention Is Not a Resource, It’s an Experience
“Conceiving of attention as a resource misses the fact that attention is not just useful. It’s more fundamental than that: attention is what joins us with the o...
Three Tricks to Get People to Listen to Your Presentations
“Skip the introduction and purpose. Everyone already knows why they are at the meeting. There is no need to introduce yourself or give the reason you’re there. ...
It’s Not About Work-Life Balance, It’s About Work-Life Enablement
“Once we accept that work powers lifestyle, then moderate our consumption of each, we find the harder we work, the more life we live.”
How to Use the 70% Rule to Stop Procrastinating
“You are the common denominator of all the drama in your life. You haven’t had 5 crappy jobs or 3 crappy relationships in a row. They did not happen to you. You...
How to Disguise Yourself like a Cia Agent
“You want to be the person that gets on the elevator, and then gets off, and nobody really remembers that you were even there.”
The Benefits of Quitting Things
“Somehow, while all our design processes celebrate iteration and celebrate throwing things away, our culture downplays iteration and quitting. We don’t celebrat...
52 Things Tom Whitwell Learned in 2018
“54 percent of Chinese born after 1995 chose ‘influencer’ as their most desired occupation.”
How to Build an Inbox Zero Email Habit
“Your habit has probably been to arrive in the office in the morning and check your email. This is akin to sending a message to the world asking for everyone el...
Improve Your Life by Subtracting Instead of Adding
“The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, drawn to distractions, say yes to almost everything, and are chained to emotional obstacles. ...