“Don’t think of a piece of content like a finished product. Think of a piece of content as a line of code.”
Create Content the Same Way Coders Create Software
Why You Should Stop Trying to Optimize Your Life
“Coming up with the perfect productivity system, the perfect to do list software — it’s not important. It’s procrastination on the things that are truly important.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.” — Pat Riley
10 Quick Tips For Creators
1. Start by learning to finish.
How to Become Indistractable
“You can’t call something a distraction unless you know what it distracted you from.”
How to Make Friends
“However vast our networks may be, our inner circle tends to be much smaller. The average American trusts only 10 to 20 people. Moreover, that number may be shrinking: From 1985 to 2004, the average number of confidants that people reported having decreased from three to two.”
Creative Is Not a Noun
“When people use the word creative as a job title I think it falsely divides the world into creatives and non-creatives. It also implies that the work of a creative is being creative, but being creative is never an end.”
A System for Reading
“I make fairly liberal use of skimming and skipping, especially in non-fiction where not every chapter will have an equivalent impact for me. Skimming the first and last few pages of a chapter often gives you a great idea about whether the chapter is worth reading for you.”
How to Take a Depth Year
“No new hobbies, equipment, games, or books are allowed during this year. Instead, you have to find the value in what you already own or what you’ve already started. You improve skills rather than learning new ones. You consume media you’ve already stockpiled instead of acquiring more.”
Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice to Entrepreneurs
“The problem is almost always larger than you, and so it can’t be mastered in one fell swoop. You have to learn to give the problems you’re working on the respect they deserve.”