“Acquiring information is not learning. You can’t learn to write novels, ride a bike, wrestle, fill out spreadsheets, or write Java code by reading textbooks. Textbooks can help, but they only work when combined with practice.”
The Four Kinds of Side Businesses You Can Start
“The biggest key to successful side hustles that I’ve seen? Understanding that you’re not starting a startup. Get this idea out of your head.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Only the ideas that we really live have value.” — Hermann Hesse
How To Tell The 11 Excuses That Hold You Back To F- Off
The biggest challenge in life is to get out of our own way.
Fears, insecurities, and doubts inspire the excuses we use to hide from going after what we want.
We tell ourselves things that aren’t true and allow those stories to hold us back.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Why You Should Make Useless Things
“That’s the true beauty of making useless things — it’s this acknowledgment that you don’t always know what the answer is. And it turns off that voice in your head that tells you that you know exactly how the world works.”
A Modest Guide to Productivity
“We’re all subject to superiors’ whims and putting out small fires. But usually — mostly — the things left on the list are our fears. There is no pleasant way to face them, but we must.”
How to Cultivate Your Imagination
“Ideas are, at their root, combinatorial. New ideas are combinations of two or more old ideas.”
Five Lessons from Meeting a Stranger Every Week for a Year
“At times, it’s easy to feel disenchanted by the routine of catching up with the same people, doing the same thing, and having the same conversations. What I learned in my experiment is it’s important to go out of your way to meet people who are not like you, with different backgrounds, expertise, and experiences.”
The Importance of Intentional Hustle
“Most people start working on their logo for the next three months. But in order to make things happen you need to be able to turn your art into a business.”
How to Access Breakthrough Knowledge and Minimize Noise
“Identifying potential breakthrough knowledge is actually fairly easy. There is a question that I ask myself before I consume any media that works as an incredible filter. I simply ask: Does this have the potential to fundamentally change my life?”