Personal Growth
Learning to Learn
What counts as interesting? When's the last time you learned something useful? Something that really shifted your knowledge and made a difference. How about the last time you found something "interesting" online—or several "interesting" things online? Every day, you make this choice on
The Art of Thinking Poorly
What does good thinking look like? Thinking is hard work. To write well, you must think well, that's more work. And that's a start. To write well, read a lot. This helps you see what good writing looks like. You know what to steal and how
You, Inc.
Is anything else more important than you? This year, protect your best asset: you. No matter how productive, inventive or anything else you might be, the best thing you can do for yourself is to take care of the only thing that is irreplaceable—yourself. I don’t mean hire
An Anti-Forecast
So... 2020, huh? How has 2020 been for you so far? With everything the world has been through this year, things will not be the same. The question for you is, how can you take advantage of the shift to put yourself or your product in a better place. Think
Getting Everything You Can - #1
Never fall in love with... Hello friend, In the next few emails, I will share lessons from my distant mentor, Jay Abrahams (the 21.7 billion dollar man) — with application to digital products. Here's a start: they fall in love with the wrong thing The wrong thing can
Inventing: Overrated.
How to "model" success instead Inventing is overrated. What you need is a framework to re-invent. Here's the catch: Think in terms of what others have done that you can model. A model that you can use as a blueprint for your innovation. Here are some
How to Invent Anything, Simplified
How to Create Luck like its Paper There’s an untold secret to inventing and innovating things — it’s often a remix. The trick is figuring out what you can remix. Let’s pick an example: a book you read recently. I’m sure you will want to thank Gutenberg
The COVID Void
What are your hidden opportunities? COVID has thought me an important lesson. Everything can turn around in a snap. It is teaching me to play and think defensively. The good news is, in unusual times, the market creates vacuums, vacuums that are filled by opportunist — like you. Here are some
50 Ways I'm Trying to Get My LIFE Together
1. Live below my means, try hard to avoid all debt. If it’s really important if I can’t afford it now, I can save up for it, again, it can always wait. 2. Just as important is saving — especially for emergencies. It will happen, I have to realize,