If I could go back in time and give my younger self any advice it would be this... Avoid alcohol like the plague. If you are going to drink the stuff do it on special occasions. Limit yourself to maybe once or twice a month. I don't say this because I am anti-alcohol. I love a [...]
Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Well, there are wrong places and wrong times and then there is being right at the scene where a murderer is just about to bury the body. But hold on, I am getting ahead of myself. About 8 years ago I was backpacking through [...]
Today was the day I decided to stop my writing streak. I have done a year's worth of articles in 52 days. That is not so bad. As much as I was not scraping the barrel for stuff to write about. I was finding it more difficult to write about the things that were on top [...]
In the movie "About a Boy" Someone says to the Hugh Grant character "No man is an island" quoting the line from the now legendary poem For Whom The Bell Tolls by John Donne. Will (Hugh Grant) says "I'm an island, I am f*cking Ibiza". For much of the early part of my life, I was [...]
With your permission, I would like to show you something. Have you ever noticed this about advice? Giving advice is easy. Taking advice is hard. Taking your own advice is harder still. Why is that? Surely taking your own advice should be the easiest thing in the world. You know you have your best interests at [...]
Not all information is created equally. Just as there are levels in communication there are levels in information. We are constantly bombarded with vast amounts of data. Navigating this avalanche of information and transforming it into actionable wisdom is crucial for personal and professional growth but more importantly our own sanity. . The hierarchy of information [...]
I am a natural dabbler. My native style is to learn just enough to be dangerous. I often arrive at unconscious competence too soon, having missed some steps. That said I do love to learn and iterate and eventually I get there. Usually, through hard reps or time spent knuckling down. There is obviously a better [...]
Decision fatigue is real In this modern world more than any other time in history we are all faced with having to make countless decisions. Some are not so important, and some have consequences life-changingly so. I've been weirdly obsessed with the decision-making process. More specifically making good ones. Well, that's not true. I really care [...]
Everything in life has a risk. Life itself is a risk in fact no one gets out of it alive. Too many people avoid risks, you might feel safe, but there are consequences. You'll be left with regrets and "what ifs." Risk and fear are natural bedfellows. They are designed to keep us safe through [...]
I am not sure if this makes me a masochist or a sociopath but there is one side character in a well-known movie that a) I secretly admire b) I use to motivate myself when stuff has to get done. More on him in a moment. An expression says if you have a big enough why, [...]
