“The earlier your company can identify, avoid, and dispose of Dead Snakes, the faster you’ll be able to build new products or features your customer actually wants, and grow your revenue accordingly.”
It’s the Best (And Worst) of Times for American Restaurants
“The golden age of restaurants is a bit like today’s golden age of TV. For television viewers, there have never been more options or, perhaps, better quality programming. But as the number of original scripted shows has soared, so has the failure rate. A new drama is now four to five times more likely to be cancelled today than it was in the late 1990s.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“The more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.” — Scott Adams
How Do I Know If My Writing Is Good?
When somebody asks for advice, their first question is never the one they REALLY want to ask.
This theory proved true in a conversation I had with someone who likes to write and is trying to figure out if a writing career would be a good fit for him.
12 Truths About Life And Writing
“There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you’re waiting for an organ. You can’t buy, achieve or date serenity and peace of mind.”
How To Become The Best In The World At What You Do
“With a few tweaks, you’ll quickly drop through a wormhole placing you in the top 5–10 percent in your field. The challenge then becomes to move from there to the top — which movement is the real contest. Getting to the top 5–10 percent merely requires a change in lifestyle. Getting to the top 1 percent requires a fundamental change in your being.”
How To Eliminate Distractions And Strengthen Your Focus
“Our main finding in this study was that, interestingly, older adults [focus on] relevant information as well as 20-year-olds. Where older adults suffered a deficit was in suppressing the irrelevant information…We discovered that their main attentional issue was that they are more distractible than younger adults.”
How To Conquer Your Fear Like A High-Wire Artist
“Assemble weapons to destroy fear. Start by reacting to fright not by burying your head in the sand but by burying your mind in knowledge; then follow with specifics.”
To Live An Extraordinary Life, You Have To Give Up A Normal One
“People who prefer to live a ‘normal’ life don’t want to pay most of the costs of an extraordinary life.”
Career Advice For A 40-Year-Old From A 60-Year-Old
“Work is a team sport. You are not going to reach your objectives unless you help other people reach their objectives. Make time to make other people successful.”