“Every one of you can forge a life so idiosyncratic that it’d be silly to compare yourself to someone else.”
How to Overcome Your Resistance to Committing to a Single Niche
Being top 20% in 3 different areas, make you top 1% in the combination. But, that’s true for any combination of 3 skills. So, show me that there’s a demand for that combination.”
A 10-Step System to Learn Anything
“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.”