I'm working on consolidating all of my work on this new Ghost site, and I'm thinking about what it would mean to feel complete. The blog or newsletter form often has a sense of incompletion – there's always a "next one" that you
A tiny zine about diagrams for clarity of purpose.
A picture is worth a thousand words...
An umbrella called "mental blocks"...
Now is a time to get deeper in our understanding of what is easeful for us. Be ruthless in discerning what works for you. Separate that which is uncomfortable because it is on your growth edge from that which is not yours to do. Perhaps the ultimate "productivity hack&
Appreciated Fred Tally-Foos' piece niching down is bad and inhuman about the idea that “we need to be able to give our elevator pitch, explain who we are in a concise way on a resume or an Instagram bio, and use that clarity to move forward in life.
I’m a huge fan of Michelle Warner’s Sequence Over Strategy podcast. Her newsletter is great, too. She chooses stories from her own life to illustrate her main points about business design. Doing things in the right order is more important than doing them perfectly. She also emphasizes understanding
"There are innumerable ways to write badly. The usual way is making sentences that don’t say what you think they do."
"In almost any negotiated agreement the key ingredients will be similar: dreams and data."
I’m not going to finish this one right now, although I think it’s an important book. I’ve made it about a third of the way through. I tend to agree with this review in Resilience. Specifically: With all the admonitions, I was prepared to be deeply affected