Nov
20
The Benefits of Constraints
Constraints are frustrating. Why should we constrain ourselves?
3 min read
Principles
Nov
06
Work on What Matters
We all have a finite amount of time to live.
And we are all trying to balance our career with our the other life-affirming activities like supporting our families, exercising, hobbies, you name it.
3 min read
Oct
23
The Irrelevancy of Being Right
Most of us innately care about being right. Being right was something that we were taught was the ultimate pinnacle of knowledge. It's like an intellectual triumph over an adversary. We know better, we know more, and you, you just don't understand.
2 min read
Oct
04
You Create Your Own Luck
You can't plan for luck. But you can plan to intelligently design your environment and give your damn best every day. It's all you can do. The rest is up to luck, fate, the universe, whatever you believe in.
1 min read
Sep
18
We Lack Clarity, Not Motivation
Sometimes in life we lose the motivation to follow through with our projects. Paralysis sets in. We question if we are on the right path and ponder on the pointlessness of it all.
2 min read
Jul
03
The Fine Art of Opportunism
Opportunism is about working with and manipulating luck, not waiting for it. It is about engineering your path through life in such a way that the probability of disproportionate-returns events in your life is increased.
1 min read
Jun
26
Discipline Equals Freedom
I am not disciplined by nature. In fact, I am struggling anew every day to deal with the tension between what I know I should and planned to do and what my dopamine-crazed brain is excited about right this minute.
2 min read
May
01
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
People and businesses will often announce to everyone who will listen, that X, Y, and Z is important to them and then the following week we watch them diametrically acting in the opposite direction.
1 min read
Apr
24
When to focus on quantity over quality
This month I was on a content-creation frenzy for a couple of weeks. I wrote this weekly newsletter, I recorded six podcast episodes within three weeks, I posted daily on LinkedIn and wrote the first draft for an eBook. And boy it was fun and created a lot of energy and momentum.
2 min read
Apr
24
Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail
At the population level, saying "reality has a surprising amount of detail" implies that no one understands how anything works but everyone thinks they understand how everything works.
2 min read